IF WE RULED THE WORLD: THE IRISH TIMES PICK OF THE FESTIVAL
Worst Film: Burnt By the Sun 2. Exodus

... At least Burton and his mob didn't give anything to the last film to play in competition. Mind you, Nikita Mikhalkov's Burnt by the Sun 2. Exodus, sequel to a perfectly decent film concerning Stalin's purges, was so energetically appalling it did deserve some sort of special commendation. The Golden Straitjacket, perhaps. This was the second World War reimagined by Victor comic in the style of Bollywood (with no tunes). The Germans behaved like possessed members of the Keystone Kops. The Russians chewed the furniture as if it were all fashioned from liquorice. ...