Smashing good movie

Rating: 9/10 (24 May 2003)

There is something odd about Russian peasants talking in articulate, middle-class British accents, but it works. I'm not sure why. Something symbolic about the nobility of the common man?
Ed Harris doesn't bother with accents either. In fact, nobody does. It's probably for the best.
This is a pretty gripping movie, as is any movie where the lives of all the characters can end with the mere squeeze of an index finger from some unseen place.
Watch this movie. Despite what you might read here, it's a lot better than rubbish like Saving Private Ryan. Though it might be a shock to the system for many of you to have no Americans to barrack for.