ThiefHott Too much of everything

Lawbolisted Powerful

Frances Chung Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

sinful-2 I saw this movie because I saw the praising reviews here on IMDB. What did I think then. The Actors did a fine job. Camera work was B&W but fine and nice enough.Story? Well it is hard for me really to say a lot about the story without giving to much away. But we start finding out some insurance man that apparently are stealing cars. We much later in the movie find his motivation for stealing the cars and how he choose the victims. For me this came much to late. I saw really no logic in what was going on and when I finally found out it was kind of too late for me to be very interested anymore as I at this time just found the protagonist to be annoying.Comedy: There are some funny moments I would say but for me this would never be classified as a comedy.Who is this movie for? For me I can only see this movie being for people that use them as a time machine and see how the city and other stuff lokked like and was at that time.If not that much into the historical aspect then you can watch the movie while eating or folding clothes. You can find many more interesting and funnier movies both from Russia and other places to watch instead. In same line of movies I would say Operatsiya 'Y' i drugie priklyucheniya Shurika (1965) is better.

Vadim Berman "Beware of the Car" is one of the icons of the old Soviet cinema.(Note: there will be spoilers because it seems that the viewers not familiar with the Soviet culture struggle to understand what the movie is about.)The film is both a comedy and an over-the-top thriller parody. It follows a modest insurance agent Detochkin who uses the insider knowledge about his clients to hijack their cars. Incidentally, Detochkin befriends the police detective who is leading the investigation of his cases.The twist is that Detochkin does not steal to profit, but donates all the proceeds to the orphanages, and his victims are only crooks and corrupt officials. So Detochkin is essentially a vigilante.The idea of an honest vigilante thief was unusual and original enough to carry the plot for most Soviet viewers. Otherwise, it is a light comedy, in the sweetly naive spirit of the times as expressed by a supporting character, Detochkin's fiancée: "You're thinking like a five-years-old child!" Much of the film is carried by mostly untranslatable jokes and comedic performances of the stars of the golden age of the Soviet cinema: Papanov, Mironov, Efremov, Aroseva. Smoktunovsky was undoubtedly one of the greatest actors who ever lived but seems to be miscast here: I will always remember him as Hamlet; he always carries this drama with him.A classic comedy, but sadly, I think most of it will be lost to the uninitiated. Hollywood could make a dumbed-down remake though, that might work.

dickie_jonus_tsr Beware of the Automobile. What would a Russian say when you mentioned it in front of him? I'm a Russian myself and I know. When someone mentions the movie's name, the other person would go babbling on about the storyline, every single detail from start to end. He would imitate highly enjoyed moments in the highly enjoyed film. He would repeat memorable quotes (which sound funnier in Russian). And he would go asking everyone if they knew interesting facts about the interesting film.With non-Russians, however... well, to be honest I don't know. I have this movie on VHS in Russian and I never showed to an English speaking person before, but I think that even some non-Russian people will be fascinated by this film. I certainly am. I watch this movie whenever I get the chance. And I always love it, no matter how many times I've watched it.The director, Eldar Ryazanov is a highly-loved Russian director and has directed a lot of classical Russian films, not one which I don't like. Go Ryazanov! Go Beware of the Automobile! Go whoever watched this film! Go whoever enjoyed it! Rating: 10/10

Niffiwan This is one of my favourite comedies, and it's a real shame that as I write this there is no version with English subtitles available. This is truly one of the funniest movies that I've ever seen, especially the hilarious narrated car chase sequence.This is quite a well-known movie in Russia so it seems strange that there is no English version yet. We can only hope that RusCiCo or KINO will eventually release something.The movie's humour is gentle, ironic, and just plain wacky at times, and the main character is easy to identify with, even if he is technically a criminal (though not a criminal at heart); there are no actual "bad people" in the movie, and there are some pretty funny situations when the protagonist reveals through his own honesty how the morals of other people can be much more crooked than his (for example, the guy who desperately needs a ride and isn't at all put off after being told that the guy he's asking for a ride is about to steal the car).Highly recommended (if you can understand Russian).