Ivan Lalic
Classic Russian cinema is THE ARTSIEST one in the world. It is built on basic graphic elements and a powerfull symbollic of the simple and direct script.
On the other side, the Russian war movies of the past were quite often drowned in pathetic and overemphasized patriotism, which lead to a significant diminishing of their art qualities.
All of this can not be said for the one of the most powerful and most painful to watch war stories of all time, "Come and see".
Elem Klimov filmed a merciless and never ending torment for the average viewer, bombarding him from the very start with unbearably intense editing of every imaginable war horror from the deepest levels of hell. Although basically empty in the script line, "Come and see" will extinguish your soul and blow you away with one of the most powerful endings in the history of war cinema.
"Come and see" is one those movies you will watch only once, but will never forget.
denis888
Filmed by Elem KLimov in 1985, Come And See remains of The most brutally honest, chilling, deeply disturbing, awfully realistic war epics depicting the massacre of Belarus village by Nazi soldiers, along with all the civilians in a barn. What makes it even more brutal and shocking is that fact that the whole film is shown as if throught the eyes of a young boy Flyora, a partisan, who witnesses unbearable wanton brutality, survives and becomes deeply traumatized by this.
This is a very timeless film which sends one message - War is all evil, it is never fun or funride. It is woe, weeping, wildness and blood.
Miguel Neto
Idi i smotri is one of the movies that I felt the most, it is a very realistic and heavy war movie, the Soviet movie portrays very well what is a war, the film has scenes that bothers you, people suffering, you see the Terror of war, the direction of Elem Klimov is very good, he commands very well, the cast is also very competent, Aleksei Kravchenko is excellent, but I think the film takes time to gear, I think the 2 and 3 very good acts, But I did not like the first one, I found it very tiring and even a little exaggerated, the photograph is good, the 'dead' tone combines too much with the film, you do not see hope in the movie, and that works very well, Idi i smotri It's a very good war movie, and it's worth your time. 8.4
sir-mauri
Come and See follows a young Belarusian Flyora who wants to join the army and fight in the war. From then on Floyra's life and whole universe change to a point of no return.This won't be a very long review but this film had me going. Truly one of this most terrifyingly realistic war films i have ever seen. A child soldier who wanted to willingly fight, and all we do is watch as war takes everything that makes a young boy innocent away from him.This film extremely captivates the reality of war. I was left silent through out the whole film almost horrified by some of the incidents occurring on the screen. The Directing, Acting, EVERYTHING is just extremely captivating. There's so much i could say about this film but i want to try and leave this film completely spoiler free.All i can say is when you see this film, you will never forget it and though this film may be extremely horrific with some scenes its definitely a great piece of cinema. Truly Powerful.