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.
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.
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]
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]
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.