Review – Sputnik

At the outset I need to note the sheer awfulness of Amazon Prime’s excuse for dubbing. This was listed as “English dub,” which it definitely was not. However, when the audio description track was turned on, the description (including the dialogue) was in English. Which made for an odd way to watch a movie. Fortunately there wasn’t all that much movie to watch. The story – cosmonaut comes back from space possessed by an alien – functioned well enough for maybe the length of a Twilight Zone episode, and the rest of the running time was padded out with slow moments and illogical twists. But what else might one expect from Russian sci fi? See if desperate