If you are craving a crime flick with plenty of credible, well crafted twists and turns, and you can take above average doses of violence, Steven Knight’s screenplay delivers.This crime drama opens with a curious execution and a dying mother who leaves behind a mystery child. Naomi Watts plays Anna Khitrova the midwife who uses the dying mother’s diary to find a home for the baby, but instead the tiny book leads her and her family into a messy encounter with a London based Russian mob.
Viggo Mortensen is mysterious, convincing and sexy as Nikolai Luzhin the Russian crime family driver. Few will soon forget his fight scene in a Russian bath. You find yourself drawn into the fight and ready to throw your own punch, the same way director Sam Peckinpah pulled you into a fight to the death in Straw Dogs (1971).
Armin Mueller-Stahl is equal parts charm and fatherly dictator as Semyon the crime family kingpin who runs his operation from a lavish Russian restaurant.
The plot is dark and the actors clearly enjoy each time that take you down another notch inside the slang, habits and brutal methods of the Vory V Zakone criminal brotherhood. Like the best of this genre…you spend a good time wondering which side some of the main characters are really on.
Available on DVD –THREE Bowls of Borscht --- Russian Realism and moderate caution as to violence.
Watch trailer here.
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