People, don't listen to idiotic comments. It's quite good movie.

Rating: 8/10 (17 April 2015)

Firstly, as I said don't be fooled by negative opinions. I will tell you about it later. Movie is good. It has interesting, engrossing story and is well played. Tom Hardy is as good as he always is. It was pleasure to watch him portraying Leo Demidov. The same the others. Well done! However, in my opinion the murderer identity was revealed to quickly. There are some other imperfections but on the whole it is this kind of film that you can spend you money and time one without regret.
Now, about negative opinions. You may hear and read that the movie is US anti-Russian propaganda, lie etc. I suggest you to not listen it . In most of the cases these opinions are written by Russians who are brainwashed by communist/bolshevik/putinazi propaganda and THIS is the real propaganda. Of course, this is not historical movie, it's only a thriller, a criminal drama with fictitious characters but it can give you a glimpse into what USSR was under the rule of bolsheviks and Stalin himself. It was a country where fingering and distrust were almost a normal state. You could be denounced by your wife/husband, brother or son and be sentenced years in GULAG or be killed as an "enemy of the state" just for telling jokes about Stalin or expressing loudly your negative opinion about the party ideology or the country. This is true. I studied in Moscow, I have visited Russia many times and for ten years I have lived in one of the former USSR country in Central Asia. I met people many of whom are descendants of exiled "enemies of the state". Some of them, now in the age of 90, still remember that horrible time. I have heard a lot of stories, sad stories about late 30s, 40s under Stalin's regime. Remember, communists in USSR made a boy who denounced his father to the political police a hero and role model for all young people and children. Now Russian are trying to excuse and justify an oppressive system built on terror by murderer Lenin and his followers. Bolsheviks to keep the power, which was taken by force, killed millions of Russians and rest of them kept in fear but Russians still honor Lenin in his mausoleum in the heart of Moscow. Probably most of the negative reviewers haven't even watched this movie, they just follow the same pattern as was used in case of Solzhenitsyn's books: "I haven't read Solzhenitsyn but I reckon that ..."(blah, blah, blah about how bad is he and his books). Don't be deluded by them.