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Based on the first of a trilogy by Tom Rob Smith and set in the Stalin era of the Soviet Union. The plot is about an idealistic pro-Stalin security officer who decides to investigate a series of child murders in a country where supposedly this sort of crime doesn't exist. The state would not hear of the existence of a child murderer let alone a serial killer. He gets demoted and exiled but decides, with just the help of his wife, to continue pursuing the case.Written by
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One of two espionage and/or red curtain suspense films that actor Gary Oldman has appeared in since his Academy Award Best Actor Oscar nomination for playing George Smiley in John le Carré's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) spy movie around five years earlier. The two feature films are Criminal (2016) and Child 44 (2015). See more »
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When Leo confronts Raisa and she gets a closeup, you can actually see that Noomi Rapace wears green contact lenses to obscure that she has brown eyes. See more »
This movie is a disaster. It's grim story about how the mistreatment of Ukranians mixed badly with a serial killer story.
The varying degrees of Russian accents mix together badly and a lot of the dialog ends up incomprehensible. It would have been better that everyone didn't try to fake an accent than for them to have some exaggerated accents (like Tom Hardy's) and some faint accents (the rest). Make a movie about the Ukrianian serial killer and keep it true story. That may have worked.
There are some incongruous characters. The villain played by Joel Kinnaman seems evil for no reason. Very fake and contrived. Noomi Rapace doesn't look or sound Russian at all. Strange choice.
Don't bother with this long and dreary nonsense.
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This movie is a disaster. It's grim story about how the mistreatment of Ukranians mixed badly with a serial killer story.
The varying degrees of Russian accents mix together badly and a lot of the dialog ends up incomprehensible. It would have been better that everyone didn't try to fake an accent than for them to have some exaggerated accents (like Tom Hardy's) and some faint accents (the rest). Make a movie about the Ukrianian serial killer and keep it true story. That may have worked.
There are some incongruous characters. The villain played by Joel Kinnaman seems evil for no reason. Very fake and contrived. Noomi Rapace doesn't look or sound Russian at all. Strange choice.
Don't bother with this long and dreary nonsense.