Decidedly average

Rating: 5/10 (1 November 2001)

I can understand a film centreing on Russia featuring actors who speak in English to aid comprehension of the dialogue.
However, when the actors do not speak with anything resembling Russian accents, and in fact speak in a variety of English and American accents when they are supposed to be Soviets, the film loses much credibility.
Jude Law played the role of the hero in the same style he always does, Bob Hoskins was utterly not credible as Kruschev and Fiennes and Harris came across as scarcely believable also.
Given the current fashion for making WWII films, this is at the poorer end of the scale, and is one to watch only when there is nothing else available in-flight [as I saw it].
Give it a miss.