Bad novels make bad movies - don't waste your time

Rating: 1/10 (5 November 2015)

This movie is a disaster. It's grim story about how the mistreatment of Ukranians mixed badly with a serial killer story.
The varying degrees of Russian accents mix together badly and a lot of the dialog ends up incomprehensible. It would have been better that everyone didn't try to fake an accent than for them to have some exaggerated accents (like Tom Hardy's) and some faint accents (the rest). Make a movie about the Ukrianian serial killer and keep it true story. That may have worked.
There are some incongruous characters. The villain played by Joel Kinnaman seems evil for no reason. Very fake and contrived. Noomi Rapace doesn't look or sound Russian at all. Strange choice.
Don't bother with this long and dreary nonsense.