ranjitsisa I must say the movie is highly under-rated in IMDb. We are not looking here for a typical FBI Thriller or a romantic plot. It is a discovery of a legend by Sergei and this leads to so many discoveries. Although the movie is mostly set in dark and closed alleys, but it was well shot and actually depicts the real feeling as if you are inside that place as defined in the plot.It is a 'different' kind of a movie and it is actually very nicely done. The story has been treated well.The Sister tried to protect the kids from daemons that lived at higher levels... and I presume all the kids and the sister died of hunger... But what was not clear is why would children (shadows of daemons) kill people who would come down... Well maybe because all of them had to sacrifice their lives and die of hunger.

ampeck OK from reading other comments it is apparent that people either love or hate this movie, as always seems to be the way with movies like this. My husband and I rented this movie for two reasons, the description on the box and my love of Moscow (visited his family there last summer). While I was disappointed that they did not show more of the city or have true Russians as actors I found the plot rather interesting.At first you don't truly understand what is going on other than Owen (Vincent Gallo) looking for his friend Sergei in Moscow's underground. Meanwhile you keep going into the underground to seeing Sergei reading inscriptions in old Russian text and being followed by a little girl. Periodically you see shadows, but don't really understand. And at one point the girl tells an older person that the Doorway to Hell has been opened.Meanwhile Owen gets together a team to go down to look for Sergei but is told not to cross the river as there are demons and a doorway to hell there. Eventually you find out Sergei went missing while looking for the "doorway to Hell" But you also begin to realize that the little girl and other children are not what they seem. They are spirits that are trapped in the catacombs who were sent down there in the 20's during the revolution... they were told that above ground there were demons who would kill them. This belief was born out when at some point in their captivity two children left the catacombs to witness the church burning. Thus the nun looking after them labeled that escape route Hell (the doorway to hell). The underground dwellers attempt to seal the "doorway to hell" only to find someone had already done so. The surprising thing is that the spirits of the children perceive the living as demons (they cannot understand the speech) and the living perceive the children as demons (they only see shadows).This movie is not for someone who is looking for a movie that tells them exactly what to think or believe is happening. It is a movie that requires some thought and the viewer must be able to draw some connections between some vague points. This is one of the more enjoyable suspense (can't really call it horror) movies I have seen in a while. It is not your typical formula movie.

mario_c MOSCOW ZERO is a really dark, mystical and supernatural film. The plot is very straight to follow since it's just about a quest to find SERGEI (played by Rade Serbedzija) an old friend of the father OWEN (played by Vincent Gallo) that went to the catacombs of Moscow alone. The entire movie is passed in there. Though the film has a very open ending, which is, by the way, very well connected to the mysterious and mystical ambiance that is always present… What I appreciated the most in the film was precisely this mystical and supernatural ambiance of this story and the way it was shot. It has a great cinematography, creating very dark and claustrophobic scenarios. The soundtrack is also good, because it also has mysterious, dark, melancholic and melodic music, like a ghost story must have! One other detail that I also appreciated was the fact of the demons were characterized only as shadows, as a dark light in the underworld… I found it so much better than the traditional way of characterize demons as little monsters with sharpened teethes, horns and a back tail… I think this film is very well produced, though I agree it's a bit slow sometimes and could have been more suspenseful. However I also think this melancholy present in the plot and the soundtrack fits perfectly in a dark and mystical story like this.The acting is reasonably good, but I only would like to mention the Portuguese actor Joaquim de Almeida, playing YURI character… It was a surprise to me hearing him speaking some lines in Russian, but he's a "box of surprises" anyway… I also would like to say that I think this movie is too much underrated here on IMDb. I Liked this film, especially because of its ambiance as I said before, and I found pretty absurd that a user can say things like this: "There are two shameful reviews in IMDb promoting this movie and they are typically fake, written by users with only one review in this site". Just because he has more than 3000 reviews he thinks he's opinion is better than anyone else's! It's really sad… My final vote to this different but good film is 7/10.

chris-jones-peter After watching this film I decided that it was so awful that I must join IMDb and write a review to warn other people of the pit falls of renting/buying this film. To be fair to the film there is only one good section to this film and that is the end credits cause then you know that this crap is well and truly over. I watched it to the end in the hope that I may get a little bit of pleasure out of the film. Just tunnels more tunnels and an old man talking to himself (If you watch this film too many time so will you). As for Val if he keeps selecting films like this he may as well kiss goodbye to his acting career. There is no point in even writing about what is in the film as that has already been done. Keep your money and sanity and keep well clear.