Regie:
Daniel EspinosaDrehbuch:
Richard PriceKamera:
Oliver WoodMusik:
Jon EkstrandBesetzung:
Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Jason Clarke, Fares Fares, Vincent Cassel, Josef Altin, Paddy Considine, Nikolaj Lie Kaas (mehr)Streaming (5)
Inhalte(1)
Moskau 1953 – im Arbeiterparadies der Stalinzeit darf es offiziell keine Verbrechen geben und doch: Millionen leben in Angst ... und der willkürliche Tod scheint nie weit weg zu sein. Als gefeierter Kriegsheld, der fest an die kommunistischen Ideale und die Zukunft seines Landes glaubt, konnte sich Geheimdienstoffizier Leo Demidow (TOM HARDY) eine Karriere aufbauen und seiner Familie einen bescheidenen Wohlstand sichern. Doch als die grausam zugerichtete Leiche des kleinen Sohnes eines Mitoffiziers aufgefunden wird und der offensichtliche Mord von Generalmajor Kuzmin (VINCENT KASSEL) zum Unfall erklärt wird, gerät Leos ganze Welt ins Wanken. Als ein weiterer Mord an einem Kind geschieht und Leo gegen den Befehl seiner Vorgesetzten eigene Nachforschungen aufnimmt, sieht er sich schnell ins provinzielle Exil degradiert und schwebt plötzlich mit seiner Familie in tödlicher Gefahr... Der ihm einzig verbleibende rettende Ausweg ist die Mordserie gegen alle Widerstände der Behörden und trotz des widerstrebenden Misstrauens von Milizanführer Nesterow (GARY OLDMAN) möglichst schnell aufzudecken. Doch schon bald findet sich Leo unerwartet während der Jagd nach dem Killer auf einer Reise in seine eigene dunkle Vergangenheit: Während sich die Intrigen seines ehrgeizigen Rivalen Wassili (JOEL KINNAMAN) wie eine Schlinge immer enger um seinen Hals legen, droht ihn ausgerechnet die Suche nach der Wahrheit immer weiter von seiner Frau und einzigen Verbündeten Raisa (NOOMI RAPACE) zu entfremden. Wem kann Leo nun noch vertrauen? (Concorde Filmverleih)
(mehr)Kritiken (8)
As a detective drama, it's pretty lousy; as a psychological drama about people who have to live a lie and can't even rely on their loved ones, and risk jail or a bullet in any attempt to leave the system, it's surprisingly fine. But the running time is excessive anyway.
()
Es sieht so aus, als ob die zweite Hälfte des Films nur die Person mit der Klappe und der Kameramann anhand von blassen Erinnerungen an die Ereignisse im verlorenen Drehbuch aufgenommen haben. Oder ein Cutter unter Drogeneinfluss. Die erste Hälfte ist OK.
()
I'm tempted to read the book to compare whether it already beats on the reader (viewer) or whether the film is the grandest burial of the overblown ambitions of the American big screen in a decade. A few notes: For all his popularity, Hardy doesn't pull off the lead role. His attempt to play an introvert is shattered by his blustering and considerably "limited acting register" [© Lima]; acting-wise, Oldman and Kinnaman are at their minimum, even though they play limited (Gary) or downright useless (Joel) characters; every time Kinnamann's Vasili appears, the film bombs the viewer with an absolute WTF moment, best exemplified by the entire ten-minute sequence where the lead pair are thrown into a cattle truck; out of a whole bunch of plot lines, not one of them works, and there's no meaningful denouement either, so there's an extra hour in the film and another hour missing; the actual investigation wouldn't have been allowed even by Schimanski's dramaturgists; Wood's cinematography drowns it in shadows - it's not dark, it's opaque; and most importantly, about halfway through, the main characters would have ended up in the gulag in real life, without mercy. I haven't been this embarrassed for a movie in a long time.
()
Interesting film. A solid cast, nice period atmosphere and look and one excellent bloody scene on a train, that's what I would highlight here. As far as the pace is concerned it's a rather slower film, there's not much action, the serial killer is only a minor element, which is a pity, but it's probably worth watching, it has a lot going for it. 65%
()
It's a very enjoyably international film, but unfortunately it's torn between being a crime drama or a dark period drama, and maybe that works somewhere, but it didn't quite work for me here. The acting wasn't great, but the worst was the dark shaky camerawork where you couldn't really see what was going on during the scenes with more action. Too long, indecisive, with good and bad scenes. An average 55%.
()
I hope it's dawned on everyone far and wide that Daniel Espinosa is not a director of grim historical thrillers, because he's not very good at choosing his writers. He’s good with atmosphere and setting, but the stupid denouement isn't quite the same as the fact that he sinks the whole thing into dark grey fuzzy filters. Please someone get him to make a Bourne sequel, or another Rambo, because not many people can do harder, rawer action. There's not much of it, but it's delicious.
()
The primary things I look for in movies are the direction, editing, and camera work. Minor things like the script or the acting I can work with when the first items can properly stick their tongue in my ear. Child 44 was made by an excellent director, shot with excellent cinematography, cast with excellent actors (Hardy makes a scene just by sitting in it and staring at a wall), only to be defiled by constant over-cutting to the tolerable limit of 137 minutes. In the second half, scenes are stacked on top of each other with dreadful editing. Dialogue has obviously been brutally cut (you can tell as much from the ill-fitting inserts of various close-ups of hands or silent faces), you can tell by various elements that scenes should often have looked completely different and been devoted to nothing else, over half of the scenes lack spatial exposition and the introduction of some supporting characters, and the list goes on. Basically, the film treats the script the way a tabloid treats events – picking only the juiciest bits, taking them out of context, and using the source material only as a means to somehow hold it all together. Still, Espinosa is an excellent filmmaker and Wood a skilled cinematographer. The shot composition and lighting are absolutely incredible, and I hope the full-cut makes it out one day so I can truly, thoroughly enjoy the film.
()
Or what happens when Americans decide to shoot a political detective story in predominantly Eastern European co-production. The politics of the times are presented to us as if we did not know them ourselves. There is absolutely nothing new in this. After some time, you'll realize that it's primarily a crime thriller, where the political background is portrayed in a drawn-out manner. What I don't understand is why American and British actors have to speak with such a ridiculous accent that is no closer to Russian than classic English.
()
Werbung