Sergey Lukyanenko's books are a treasure trove of ideas, and should lend themselves well to adaptations. Night Watch was a good one. Chernovik, however, is a mess. Too much has been crammed into a single movie. The visuals are spectacularly, but the numbers of characters, worlds, the weird transitions, the lack of character development or even fleshing, makes it nearly impossible to follow. Paradoxaly, the rhythm lulls several times in the movie, and keeping attention is difficult. Too bad.

Film without the slightest sense, poorly written and with an avalanche of both logical and plot holes. In general the film opens very well giving you a very good introduction that makes you empathize with the protagonist and makes you enter completely into the story, but after the beginning the film begins to decline in quality, meaning and continuity as if they had lost the desire to make the film, and in the end you wonder how it could have happened to this film to degenerate in this way.

Kirill (Nikita Volkov ) is a game designer who recently broke up with his girlfriend Anna (Olga Borovskaya) who is not killed by a train. All of a sudden, for no apparent reason his life vanishes caused by the strange woman (Severija Janusauskaite ) in his apartment. Kirill is forced to live in a circular tower with multiple doors. He opens doors to new worlds which are alternate realities for Moscow. He is tasked to locate Arken, the one world that rules them all. Meanwhile, he chases alternate Anna who doesn't know she broke up with him.

This was interesting Russian science fiction in spite of the horrible dubbing. If you loved the Matrix, you might like this one. Visually good.

Guide: No swearing or sex. Brief rear nudity.