for me the only reason for have a look at this remake be to see how bad and funny it could be . there be no doubt about it be funny and bad and because i have see voyna i mir ( 1968 ) . shall we begin . here we go . robert dornhelm and brendan donnison pierre bezukhov a lean fellow that lack the depth of the original while robert dornhelm and brendan donnison natasha rostova a scarecrow and her image can cause insomnia while robert dornhelm and brendan donnison andrej bolkonsky an ok incarnation which and like the lean fellow ( cf . above ) and lack depth of a russian soul and struggle within while robert dornhelm and brendan donnison napoleon a rather unimpressive leader while robert dornhelm and brendan donnison prince bolkonsky a turd with an english face while robert dornhelm and brendan donnison count bezukhov a spineless freak show . the rest of the character be not much well . the movement of the actor and the way they look and speak be often atrocious . they behave like modern eu citizen dress up for a one day masquerade . it all look cheap and never come close to the standard of our russian men and woman of the early 19th century . a good piece of entertainment to scrutinize and make fun of . we have quite a few giggle in our office when remember this modern product and which have be show the previous evening on our tv . user rating represent 8. negative ( 29 vote ) i guess and many young people have never watch our film ( voyna i mir 1968 ) or have weird sense of tarantino spielberg quality . remember the scene when our hussar be save his friend and turn around and shoot and and the bridge go boom . look like a cgi explosion . there be neither sense nor craft to make a good version of the novel and which be screen properly in our country once . but i would be happy to watch a russian remake of go with the wind . hey and director and wake up and get busy with that and instead of spoil our classic . now back to common sense . joke aside . what i mention above be nothing new and though deadly exaggerate . to make foreign actor try to pass for russian ( while participate in very serious epic and drama ) be a rude mistake and the filmmaker be make this mistake again and again . of course it result in numerous laugh especially clemence poesy be uncomfortably ridiculous and her dancing and singing make a russian viewer think represent this suck so much that it funny . ) . in order to say something new and i would like to mention the pace of the movie . to my mind and this new version be very patchy . the narration and the scene be not naturally flow they stagger and pop up like in a modern video . again i have to remember our voyna i mir and where the action be so natural and the narration be so easy that you simply sit back and enjoy go with the flow . i think that maybe the borodino battle would be great ( to somehow rehabilitate numerous drawback ) but it have turn out to be no match for the war scene film in 1968. there should be something good in this movie after all . and there be . the actor seem to be try hard to make it all work . they do not have a chance from the start but they still join the loser team . plus 1 point for that recklessness . it make a russian viewer uncomfortable some scene be ironically ridiculous though they be intend to be dramatically powerful and the actor be do their best . it all evoke pity and and sometimes fit of laughter . what i still like about this serial be the last part of it . it show very vividly how everybody get his or her salary and tax . besides and judging by the movie trailer i think that the film would have an adult sex scene and which would definitely kill the whole project . but and fortunately and it do not have such rubbish . and that a big plus . voyna i mir be no harry potter and nowadays even we and here in present day russia and do not have enough craft to film it properly . do i have to say that the moral quality of our life have deteriorate immensely . fortunately and a proper film be screen during our soviet time . the american version of the 1950s be justify to some extent ours do not even exist yet . there be extenuate circumstance then . 4 out of 10 ( 1 point be give from the start and 1 point go for the recklessness and and 2 point for the last part of the serial . thanks for attention .