If your review contains spoilers, please check the Spoiler box. It's not the dark, edgy thriller you'd expect. In fact, to call it a thriller would be a misnomer.
Even the cinematography by Oliver Wood (The Bourne Ultimatum) seems purposely dingy, as if the lens had. Children in an orphanage beat and kick another child. A psychotic killer gives himself water torture.
How does the violence help tell this particular story? How did the movie achieve this effect? The film team review A Little Chaos. A disgraced military hero seeks to find a child murderer outside the boundaries of the law in Stalin's Soviet Union. Opposing the corruption of the West, the Soviet. Tom Hardy adopts a Russian accent in this dark Soviet thriller, in which a serial killer isn't nearly as scary as the system that refuses to investigate him.
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As Leo Demidov, a dedicated security officer tasked with cracking down on traitors in Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union, Hardy plays another hardened man's man, one ruthless enough to make his living hunting anyone and. Review: At the beginning of the film, we see Leo flirt with the sublimely attractive Raisa at a dinner table while in the company of friends during one post war party. "Good". The Man Who Invented Christmas Movie Review.
There's a somewhat contrived jauntiness to this blending of fact and fiction that may leave. In Stalin's Ukraine, in the thick of the brutal Holodomor (the artificial famine that killed millions), an orphanage is filled with starving children. Sadly, the end result is a very mediocre film. Tom Hardy as the officer who investigates the child murders has never been better, while the Swedish Joel Kinnaman, as Vasili, again proves he is one of Hollywood's most promising up-and-coming actors.