The cinematography was amazing... However, the English audio translation sucked. In addition I think the movie was way longer than it needed to be. Personally, I would rate this a 5. If it were not for some of the great visuals, I would have gave it a two.

Not sure what to say about this. The acting wasn't the best I've seen and some things were somewhat not fitting the plot or scenery. All those (probably budget related) issues aside, the overall story was good as I was sticking with it for all the six currently aired episodes. So it couldn't have been too bad I guess. Very Russian if you ask me, and a bit controversial on religious aspects. The story itself made a drastic change, which was great, but it was far too close to the end. If the "second part" would have lasted more than just one episode, I would have rated it higher. This is probably the first time that I don't criticise a long-winded plot but would have even preferred a bit of long-windiness (and more content) at its end. Let's see if a second season will come and how that will perform. I would definitely take a look at it.