Very poor book adaptation

Rating: 1/10 (4 October 2015)

I sincerely doubt that the author of original Child 44 novel, Tom Rob Smith, had a chance to read the script for this movie, as this movie adaptation of the plot is just beyond the definition of bad.
Not only the movie has very little resemblance to the novel itself, it actually seems that the script writers have zero understanding of the Soviet history, upon which the events unravel.
All events in the movie are not coherent, the motivation of characters is the mystery, and the thriller part gets lost in a seriously dubious attempt to portray the ugliness of "the Soviet Russia". And what did they do to Tom Hardy, why every sentence he says sounds like he's seriously drunk. Is that supposed to mean "Russian accent"? So Russian language sounds like English, but after drinking half bottle of vodka?
This movie is just so very bad, it's not even worth a review. The movie which was supposed to be about the mystery, is a mystery in itself - the mystery of how some good actors, including Tom Hardy and Gary Oldman, agreed to be in it. However, just to warn others, I must warn ya: better read the book, it's really good and don't waste time watching this movie. It really has nothing to do with the book, apart from the name itself.