Attraction [Audio: English]
After an alien ship crash lands onto a Russian city, many who saw it and the occupants start to question their own existence while there are those who demand the aliens leave Earth.
17 July 1954, Hamburg, Germany
14 June 1946, New York City, New York, USA
1 September 1958, Kherson, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]
March 30, 1992 in Moscow, Russia
January 19, 2018
Simplistic, unsubtle but never dull.August 16, 2017
As serious sci-fi, Attraction barely leaves the launchpad. But as superior bubblegum spectacle, it easily blasts into orbit.January 17, 2018
Whenever the mothership starts whirring, or its mutant metallic spawn work their warlike mischief, it's quite a lot of fun.January 19, 2018
... bar a few set-piece action scenes, this is mostly illogical, second-rate muck.October 11, 2017
What could have been an interesting science fiction film with political and social criticism ends up becoming a kind of Twlight-like film, which involves one of the most forced romances I've seen on the big screen. [Full Review in Spanish]January 18, 2018
A slightly tired invasion.September 27, 2017
A clumsy and ridiculous love story in which Yulia (Irina Starshenbaum) -the daughter of Colonel Lebedev- and Hijken -one of the humanoid aliens- fall in love in an implausible process. [Full review in Spanish]January 19, 2018
It has a spectacular opening sequence, and features a few minor tweaks to alien-invasion tropes. But the teen romance at its center reduces this to a very inconsequential first contact.January 17, 2018
While the movie sometimes strains at the limits of its own internal credibility (especially as characters switch loyalties and romantic affinities with unconvincing speed), this remains a landmark entry in the modern Russian sci-fi film canon.January 21, 2018
Though the special-effects spectacles are fine, and a few scenes even have a sense of wonder and magic, there's nothing distinctive about the movie.