📝Russian sci-fi heads to space📝 "The Ninth Planet" released After the whole situation with "Kolobok" and "Spider-Man," many got the impression that cinemas show nothing else. But that's far from the case. Yesterday, September 24, a new Russian sci-fi action film hit theaters — a picture by Nikolai Rybakov featuring a notable cast and a substantial production budget. 🔻What's the film about? ▪️The character played by Yura Borisov begins to recall his service on the mysterious Ninth Planet after an accident — with alien landscapes, battles with monsters, and a girl he once saved, though to everyone around him his military service looked completely ordinary. To figure out who and why altered his and his comrades' memories, he can only return to the planet again. ▪️The title references a real astronomical hypothesis about an undiscovered large planet on the outskirts of the Solar System, except in the plot it's already been found. ▪️Reviewers compare the film to "Total Recall" because of the erased memory storyline and to "Starship Troopers" because of the military space setting, but add local flavor: the transition to the planet happens through a tunnel of a secret metro branch. 📌Russian cinema doesn't often venture into full-fledged space sci-fi with action sequences and alien monsters — usually the genre either gets avoided entirely or handled extremely cautiously. Here the studio took a clear commercial risk: the visual scope, judging by the trailer, and the cast clearly demanded serious resources. How successfully it all came together in the end is for viewers to decide in the cinema. In any case, if the industry wants its own coherent sci-fi films rather than one-off box office hits, it needs to make more and more diverse films, trying different subgenres. The trend of recent years clearly is shifting toward sci-fi, and the more such attempts that hit theaters, the higher the chance that a truly strong film will emerge among them. #culture #Russia ✈️ RU | ✈️ EN | ✉️ MAX ✉️ VK | ✉️ RuTube | ✉️ OK | ✉️ Zen 💸Support us Original msg
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