Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Keanu Reeves | ... | Lucas Hill | |
Boris Gulyarin | ... | Pyotr | |
Ashley St. George | ... | Christa | |
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Elliot Lazar | ... | Sergei - Bellboy |
Veronica Ferres | ... | Raisa | |
Pasha D. Lychnikoff | ... | Boris Volkov | |
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Vladimir Shklyar | ... | Boris Bodyguard #1 |
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Mikhail Bogdanov | ... | Mercedes Driver |
Rafael Petardi | ... | Pavel | |
Darren Ross | ... | Range Rover Driver | |
Taran Vitt | ... | Leo (as Vitaliy Demens) | |
James Gracie | ... | Vincent | |
Ana Ularu | ... | Katya | |
Dmitry Chepovetsky | ... | Ivan | |
Yurij Kis | ... | Vasily |
An American diamond merchant travels to Russia to sell rare blue diamonds of questionable origin. As the deal begins to collapse he falls into an obsessive relationship with a Russian cafe owner in a small Siberian town. As their passion builds, so does the treacherous world of the diamond trade from which he is unable to extricate himself. Both collide as the American man desperately looks for escape in a world with no exit.
The screenplay destroyed any potential this film may have had.
The story is absolutely useless and unnecessary from start to midpoint. The remainder of the scenes where convoluted (especially the ending) and so dragged out - especially the lame sex scenes.
I had to fast forward most of the long scenes as I was losing my interest and patience. What were the writers thinking? A 5th grader could have written this better.
This film suffered an identity crisis; what is soft porn? what is a romance? was it a thriller? was it spy film? There was certainly no action or suspense. There where so many plot issues and more holes than in Swiss cheese.
The cinematography was the main highlight, then the acting, and finally the directing was fairly decent, although the director should have demanded this film be edited down - especially the dragged out useless scenes to perhaps a short film. 104 mins was waaay too long for the pacing that was so ridiculously slow. The score was also annoying.
As a huge fan of KR, this was a big disappointment and he should have passed on this one. A 3/10 from me only for the very few positive traits.