Review of Partisan (2015) by Hotelcentral — 05 Nov 2017

A 5 may be the highest rating I ever gave to a film that I just could not bear to see through to the end. I got about halfway through and just gave up. The premise of a cult that sends out child assassins is both startling and horrifying, but the film does little or nothing to make me believe in the story.

Virtually no time is spent in demonstrating that the leader of the cult, Gregori, has the power or ability to lead such a cult, which, by the way, requires him to somehow persuade women to contribute their children, indeed their whole lives, to the activities of the cult, and so the whole thing comes to seem both implausible and very predictable.

It's an interesting premise, the acting is OK, the dialog isn't bad, and so I give the film a 5 instead of a 2 or 3. Borrow the DVD from your local library and be sure you have another film available in case you can't sit through Partisan either.

I don't recommend that you make the attempt.