A remarkable failure

Rating: 4/10 (9 May 2020)

A best-selling book loosely based on one of the maddest true life serial killers ever. How could a film adaptation with Tom Hardy and Gary Oldman go wrong?
Well, it did. Dingy rather than dark. Slow rather than tense. Ridiculous accents. Obvious goofs. Pretty much every nationality present except Russian. Then there's the actual plot. Leo and Raisa's relationship is totally 1D, which kind of undermines the entire story. The relationship between Leo and the killer, too.
This pleases no one.
Thriller lovers will be bored. Russians and slavs will find it hilarious and inaccurate. Fans of true crime will find it irrelevant. Fans of the book will be disappointed.