Culturally incorrect, incoherent, a regurgitated version of "Citizen X" set in the 1950's

Rating: 2/10 (22 September 2016)

In short, don't watch this piece of crap of a movie.
In long - here we go: OK, why was there a need to take a serial killer from the 1980's and 1990's and place him in the early 1950's when he would have been a teenager. Fine, let's file this under "Creative License".
The choice of the main character as one of the men who installed the Soviet flag over Reichstag is very strange. If the author of the novel wanted to indicate the "untouchable" status of the protagonist, there were other options. This one is pathetically lazy.
The cultural details are so wrong.But that is pretty much what Hollywood is all about - crappy, shallow, inaccurate representations of non-American cultures. The portrayals of men and women are beyond ridiculous.
The conflicts between characters are superficial and drawn out in an unbearable ways.
The whole movie is long for no reason. You can't find anyone to sympathize or identify with. Characters in this movie are incomprehensible. And for a good reason. When an American with limited understanding of the Soviet culture writes a novel about Soviets, he will fail spectacularly.