Laughable anti-soviet (russian) propaganda.

Rating: 1/10 (6 July 2016)

Movie is actually a bit toned down compared the anti-soviet imaginations presented in the book. Unfortunately movie is not much better than the source. As a person who is familiar with what communism in USSR was (parents/relatives), nothing which is accented on in the movie is true.
USSR had low crime rates, not because simply ignoring the crime, but due to overall mindset. When there were actually cases, they would be immediately investigated. Soviet Union could not afford eliminating people in such rates as shown in movie. If this was true, population of USSR would decline rapidly. Control was strict, surveillance was there, KGB and so on, but they did whatever FBI/CIA are doing these days in USA.
Hunger was not only Ukrainian problem prior to WW2, it was problem of USSR as whole due to many reasons, including poor decision making in critical times. Ukrainians love to speculate that it was something set against them, somewhat of a holocaust. Ignorance and stupidity of undereducated people who think like that. I'd love them to investigate on this problem.
It makes me sad when movies like this are shown to people, who are not familiar with history of Russian Empire/USSR. This heresy ruins future image of russians. I am not surprised we are presented/seen as a global threat. When you learn more about our culture, you will understand how laughable movies like this are, when casted actors can't even pronounce simple Russian words. Cluelessly or intentionally they are digging a hole between World and Russia, as future generations will form opinion based on this movie.
Writer of this book wanted to show a system trying to prevent crime investigation. He choose system he probably knew less about. Result is this movie. Maybe idea could be fun, but inaccuracy makes it unwatchable, despite how serious this movie is trying to be (Tom Hardy is in it, one of my fav actors)....