Child 44 (2015)
Directed by Daniel
Espinosa this film based on the novel of the same name stars Tom
Hardy, Gary Oldman, Noomi Rapace and Joel Kinnaman. In 1950s Soviet
Russia an MGB officer falls foul of the machinations of his
co-workers and tries to solve a series of child murders when there
are officially no murderers in Soviet Russia.
This ends up being an
average film that is never sure if it is telling a murder mystery or
exploring the depths of living in a paranoid, repressive state. No
element of this film is ever fully fleshed out and it kind of plods
along just about well enough. Tom Hardy does a decent jump in the
lead role but the script does not really do him many favours.
3/5
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