Branded

2012 "The Mad Cow"
4.6| 1h46m| R| en| More Info
Released: 07 September 2012 Released
Producted By: Bomar OOD
Country: Russia
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://brandedmovie.com
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In a dystopian future, where corporate brands have created a disillusioned population, one man's effort to unlock the truth behind the conspiracy leads to an epic battle with hidden forces that control the world.

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Jamie Bradshaw, Aleksandr Dulerayn

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Bomar OOD

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Branded Audience Reviews

Evengyny Thanks for the memories!
Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.
Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
Hayden Kane There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes
Michael Ledo I bought this film from looking at the cover. I expected a low budget Asylum/SyFy film, one I could sit and laugh at the terrible acting and bad special effects. Instead what I obtained was very ingenious film that unfortunately sacrificed entertainment in order to make a statement. The first half of the movie is long in setting up for the second half.It appears a symbolic divine heavenly cow in Taurus (minus the Pleiades) creates people from time to time with great insight to shape the human race. This cow also narrates in voice that sounds like Cate Blanchett talking to Frodo because the writers weren't clever enough to create a good scene to relate what was spoken. Narration as constant filler is substandard writing.Misha (Ed Stoppard), a Russian ad man has been selected as those once in a generation visionaries to lead mankind. As an ad man he meets Abby (Leelee Sobieski) and they produce a show together. However, there are evil forces out there against them: a burger man (Max von Sydow) with a diabolical marketing campaign that will make "fat women popular." Kiss me Mama June. Eventually Misha has a divine cow planned epiphany and becomes a Roddy Piper ("They Live") without the glasses to give us the brief sci-fi moments.The film is an over statement on how the world is shaped by advertising and propaganda campaigns. This is hardly new material, although the culprits presented are mainly the fast food and soft drink industries. If you like the "turn off your TV" campaigns, you might want to turn yours on to watch this film.Good concept, but the execution lacked entertainment value.Parental Guide: F-bomb, clothed sex, male rear nudity (Ed Stoppard or double). Leelee in bra, brief groping.
Ucare From the cover and the synopsis I was expecting something which at the beginning I did not receive. But then, after a quite strange part in the middle, the promise was fulfilled. Not in a "Matrix" style, not in an Action Sci Fi style with ton of special fx as I generally like. More strange, somehow low-budget, in certain aspects original and unconventional. But I was not disappointed, because the film is well done, never boring (even if there are some strange parts, especially in the middle, where I was thinking "wtf are they trying to say?"), and well acted. And because the message, what the society achieve in this story, is what I would like to see in the world I live in...The movie is WAY BETTER than the rating would let you believe! I really cannot understand how people can not like it.Or maybe there is a conspiracy of the Multinationals :)
grandmahawk87 This film was a surprise and very thought-provoking. In the 21st century when the big brand corporations vie for a brain share, this is a cautionary tale, one of marketing gone completely over the top. Madmen of the future beware! Mostly set in Moscow and involving an emerging China, it looks low budget, but leaves you thinking long after the movie ends. May be headed for cult status. The ideas raised here are in direct opposition to current marketing, and seems absurd, but there is a lingering feeling that perhaps it could happen. I would say that this could be a great movie to screen for students of marketing. It reveals all the current advertising strategies as well as adding some crazy outcomes.
Coco Esteves It looks like written and directed by Barney (the purple dinosaur) on acid.I was going to give it two stars because Leelee Sobiesky was on the movie, but I think that extending her part was one of the main reasons this movie sucks. Not because of her acting but because her character was totally unnecessary and her scenes took the viewer away from the (excuse of a) plot.Anyway, I was going to give it two stars an then appears the constellation cow, the same from the beginning... and talking about the beginning of a new era.