to think of all the wonderful review i have read of this film . the camera work and the real time walk and the fresh acting and the plot twist and noone would disclose anything and and oh the witty dialogue . the first thing i do not like right away be that the opening dialogue between the unseen couple in the car disclose the whole plot twist . it totally clear that they be about to be marry to each other and that there a bet on and she even say and time it so there be no surprise in the rest of the film for me and the friend i watch it with and we spend the rest of the film be sorry for the poor boy take in by the girl . the second disappointing thing be the witty dialogue . i do not think i ever hear such meaningless pseudo intellectual blabber in all my life . a for the acting . well and we have see way well than that . the girl fiance be pretty good and some of the people in the small street episode be very very good . but the lead three be plain terrible . though and i have to say they do not have much chance to do anything worthy consider the script . the third thing that i think very amateurish and ridiculous be the so called real time walk along st. petersburg street . and what more and the st. petersburg street and nevsky prospekt . now then and one can not really portray st. petersburg a an unnamed russian city and can one . especially by show it main sight and most famous spot like they do in this film . the couple pass the public library at least four time and the anichkov palace at least three and the hermitage ( of all place ) twice and buy train ticket to moscow somewhere at a reconstruction site behind the house of book instead of in a railway ticket centre across the street where they be really sell . that just bad work and i say and not take enough time to think that the viewer might actually recognize the place . probably admit that the film would never ever be show in st. petersburg itself . and it really really funny to watch and of course . and and i do not like the storyline at all . but that a minor thing . there be one thing i do like and though and the episode with people in historical costume and the guard on the st. isaac observation deck . they be at least funny .