This is a depressing and heartbreaking drama about the high-ranking political corruptions in a Russian small town, fate did not seem to be on small guys' side. The drama was well acted with beautiful scenery, it won the Golden Globe Winner - Best Foreign Language film.

A fiercely dark, but amazingly entertaining film. Visibly stunning throughout, it addresses the fears, hopes and fate of people in a remote Russian village and the interplay of corrupting power, genuine evil and the devastating impact of the interplay of state, church, and society on individuals and families.
It is a raw view of people's efforts to work, love and overcome the formal and informal obstacles to living a life. At times you want to look away, but stay with it as it illustrates what can happen when people are locked into lives with little hope for justice, and who soothe their pain with alcohol and the companionship of equally harangued other souls.

This is in Russian. The entire movie seems so negative.

It's not a comfort to know that Russian society is as lost and corrupted as our own, but what elevates the bleakness of this film is the breadth of its vision. What filmmaker Zvyagintsev gives us here is a magisterially misanthropic view of human endeavor. One might call it nihilistic except that Zvyagintsev obviously believes in nature. It's just that not even the sublimity of nature stands a chance against man's duplicity. So we should chalk up LEVIATHAN as yet another dystopia. All we seem to be able to manage are dystopias.

Well acted, beautiful scenery, sad but realistic story - the little guy usually doesn't win, life can be messy & painful, etc.

I would not recommend this movie. Much of the lighting in the movie was lacking. Even with my blinds closed, I had trouble seeing the actors at times. The ending was about as worse as it can get. All though the movie I was expecting some kind of improvement, but it never happened. I guess if you want to be depressed, watch it, but beware of this movie if you want a happy ending.

A fiercely dark, but amazingly entertaining film. Visibly stunning throughout, it addresses the fears, hopes and fate of people in a remote Russian village and the interplay of corrupting power, genuine evil and the devastating impact of the interplay of state, church, and society on individuals and families.

It's a good film about the rot setting in, in a small town- Vancouverites should be able to see the parallels with their own town quite easily.

Heartbreaking story of high-ranking corruption and "the little guy" trying to fight it.

Terrible.