Product Details

• Actors: Vincent Gallo, Oksana Akinshina, Val Kilmer, Rade Serbedzija, Joaquim de Almeida
• Directors: María Lidón
• Writers: Adela Ibańez
• Producers: Dolo Magan, Jose Magan, Jose Magan Perez
• Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, French
• Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
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• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: November 4, 2008
• Run Time: 82 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 1.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001ER4CO8
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #172,092 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Moscow Zero" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Genre: Horror
Rating: R
Release Date: 4-NOV-2008
Media Type: DVD

Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Moscow Zero (2006) is disappointing., November 6, 2008

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lk2 - See all my reviews

This review is from: Moscow Zero (DVD)

Moscow Zero (2006) is a disappointing film. This is an independent film, but it was not meant to be a cheap exploitation movie.

There are some solid actors in the film:
Val Kilmer, Joss Ackland, Joaquim de Almeida, Rade Serbedzija, Vincent Gallo, Oksana Akinshina.

The filmmaker was trying to make an atmospheric horror movie/psychological study of darkness, and she created a soggy, boring mess.

This was a waste of some good, talented actors.

A major part of why the movie fails it that you don't really care what happens to the characters. They are characters without much connection to the audience. The characters are killed, and you don't care one way or the other. The deaths are not interesting or creative or fancy or much of anything except dull.

And there are no scares. You are supposed to be scared, but instead you are bored, waiting for something exciting or meaningful to happen. You watch the entire movie (if you don't turn it off in disgust before the end) and then think, "What a waste of time".

Most of the action is supposed to take place in chambers that are beneath Moscow. So for atmosphere, most of the film is dark, and it's sometimes difficult to see clearly what the characters are doing. Adding to the confusion, it's hard to understand why the characters act the way they do. The meaning is supposed to become clear and unfold as you watch the movie advance in time, except that the characters, like in a low-grade horror film, are doing things without much sense to them. So even when you say to yourself, after seeing the added meaning of characters/items
you saw before, "OK, now I understand what's happening more clearly", it doesn't really matter very much. The story was simple and did not make much sense before, and it still does not make much sense now. You understand what the filmmaker was trying to create, an atmospheric horror film with meaning that would slowly unfold, but she ended up with a talky, low-budget mess.

There are definitely worse movies out there. But because of the actors in this film, I was really hoping for something worth watching. And this is just a time-waster. No thrills. No scares. No interesting story.

The movie would make more sense as a video game. And be a better experience. If the movie was based on a video game, that might explain why it's such a poor movie. The filmmaker was focused on trying to make a faithful transition from video game or script to film, instead of trying to make an interesting and watchable film.

A simpler explanation might be that the director (María Lidón) is a hack who lacks the talent to make a good movie.

Hopefully, if she does make any more movies, they will be better than this one.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Where is Dr. Kevorkian when you need him?, March 8, 2009

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Elijahbull (Orlando, FL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Moscow Zero (DVD)

I just watched Moscow Zero. Apparently they rated it in the title - zero. Please put me out of my misery. They should make prisoners at Guatanamo prison watch this over and over again to extract information from the terrorists. Then again, we aren't allowed to torture our prisoners anymore, so that wouldn't be humane.

This was the worst movie I have ever seen in my life. Don't even watch it if someone tries to bribe you with money. Your time is too precious.

Let me summarize it for you: Yawwwnnnnnnnnnn!!! (Pause for effect)(Silence with crickets chirping in the background). Oh...okay...you are in a Russian dried out sewer system under a Catholic church. It is a circle. Kids fled with the nuns to get away from communists years before. The nuns told the kids that any adult outsiders were demons. The nuns die. The children await a nun to come and get them, who at some time years before died. They are left to grow up in the dark tunnels They can see in the dark. Adults from above ground have heard rumors of demons below in the tunnels. The kids scratch bones on the walls to scare off demons. The adults above think demons are making scratching sounds. An archaeologist ventures down below to trace the legend out. His friends go looking for him. As the kids run around the circular tunnel, their shadows move along the wall scaring the adults. The adults (supposed demons) scare the kids. They both think each other are demons. A woman is with the men. The kids think she is the returning nun. So they follow her out of the tunnel into the above Catholic church. There is no end, no explanation, no final meeting between adults and kids, no discovery of the truth, nothing, nada. The end falls off the edge of the film's reel before it ends. It's one of these - "What the??? What happened??? I just wasted what seemed like 5 hours on that, and there is no ending???" Actually, after re-reading this review, I should have written the script. Mine was more exciting and less timely.

Should you watch this movie? Is that a question or a joke?
You ask, "Why did you watch the whole thing?" I was hoping that at some time it was going to get better, kind of a gamble after you've invested so much of your time already. I guess I'm just stupid. Don't be stupid yourself. Don't waste your time. You'd be better off watching "Tele-tubbies Gone Wild" on PBS.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This film gave me a seziure!!!!!!!!!!!!!, January 15, 2009

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VileSpyGuy "H Wer" (The O NE) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Moscow Zero (DVD)

In my 36 years of life I never would have believed that I would actually view a movie that would top the absurdity of "Starship Troopers 2"; however, once in a four year cycle a film will come along that will throw me into a petite mal seizure and have me at my keyboard 20 minutes later wiping dried vomit from my mouth and brushing Cheeto crumbs off my face and shirt. Congratulations Moscow Zero you are now number 1 in the category of "most incoherent and random direct to video production EVER".

Disclaimer: I have no issues with direct to video productions or low quality sci-fi vids; sometimes an entertaining gem will rear its head and will find its way to my DVD collection, but not this monstrosity. I will break this review down in segments for your reading pleasure.

First the cover: Obviously the budget of the film was liberally sprinkled on the packaging of this vid. What do we have on the front: Val Kilmer and some dude in priest garb. I have no issues with having a couple of cast members on the cover except Val was in the movie for maybe like 6.2 minutes; plus rocking the priest next to Kilmer was similar to that "green leafy plant thing" restaurants set next to a T-bone steak for garnish...... Why? Who the hell is this "priest"? Why is he looking constipated on my DVD cover? Next we have some promising end of the world Moscow visuals, I have no issues with these visuals, so I'm pretty neutral, lets move on.

The cast: This is the only bright shiny side to the movie. These are some solid actors and with the right script (anyone but this one) and the right director (anyone but this one) we might have come up with a solid 3 to 3.5 star movie. I will say that Oksana Akinshina is one beautiful woman and during my struggle to survive, make it through the movie and be able to at least walk in a straight line and eventually (hopefully) hold a ball in one hand, peeping at her blue eyes are what helped me weather the storm.

The plot (or lack of one): I'll try and bottom line it for you.

A researcher in Moscow goes missing, in some "secret" underground tunnels. Tons of narrative from said researcher while he walks around, sleeps, talks to himself about how smart he is and is being generally annoying while lost "of course". I think the director was shooting for a cyber punk/ poltergeist/ Indiana Jones feel. We then have one of the many "ghostly" visuals of little children running around the tunnels giving off the "wasn't talented enough to make it into the Ring 3 movie" vibe(how is this scary?). We learn a short while later that the gates of hell have opened and we are supposed to feel a sense of dread (rather I was feeling a sense of fatigue and a vague absent feeling in my right arm and may have even wet myself, but that could have been after passed out).

The movie is the same tired story: Eccentric hero assembles a crew of "red shirts" and heads down to a supposedly bad place where they hook up with a lippy hottie, have the lame "has been star" cameo (justifies the DVD cover), then the crew rolls deeper into apparently worse territory where 50% of the crew die because of there own stupidity then we have some supposedly "clever" explanation of what "hell" is and an even a more "clever" (stupid) and obscure ending. Then blood starts running from my nose and I wake up on the floor face down in a pile of Cheetos.

This movie should have been called: Give 80% of the movie budget to Val Kilmer for a 6 minute cameo and divide remainder of budget = $100 with the director, cast, crew and misc. expenses.

The result: Save your money, but if you're still not convinced, instead take a $20 bill out of your wallet and light it on fire; it's the closet emotional response you'll get without actually seeing this monstrosity