Sidorov knows exactly when to pull back and let the action play out normally. The first few times it happened, I started bracing myself to get tired of it quickly. We get to see shells fired in slow motion, shells ricocheting off of metal in slow motion, shrapnel flying around the inside of a tank in slow motion. This section introduces us to the main gimmick of the action scenes, which is writer/director Aleksey Sidorov’s love for slow motion. There’s a fun cold open where Nikolay and another soldier escape an enemy tank in a truck. We meet Nikolay Ivushkin ( Alexander Petrov) in 1941 and T-34 gets right into the action. There’s no easier way to make your audience cheer for your characters than by having them face literal Nazis. I can see why it was such a crowd pleaser. This war film is currently the second highest grossing Russian-made film of all time. So obviously, I was the perfect mark for T-34. It reminds me of old naval battles between tall ships. Tanks lumber and the crews inside them have to work in perfect harmony to succeed. There’s something about that kind of warfare that feels like a strange combination of modern weaponry and old-school battle techniques. There have been some really good ones, like The Beast or Kelly’s Heroes or Fury, but I can never say no to another one. What there isn’t enough of, in my opinion, is movies about tank battles. There are plenty of war movies, and more specifically, there are plenty of World War II movies. Starring: Alexander Petrov, Vinzenz Kiefer, Viktor Dobronravov, Irina Starshenbaum
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