Vastly Over-Rated

Rating: Null/10 (25 March 2018)

We saw Stalin in a nearly fully theater. About six people laughed a lot fairly noisily. This is heavy handed and repetitious satire. We get it from the outset. The joke is that everyone is justifiably scared of the dictator. He kills people whom he dislikes. All those near him fear his casual lethal wrath. Okay. They behave like scared rabbits. They are crude, vulgar and often stupid. There are some witty exchanges. But not two hours' worth. Still, the next two shows in Brooklyn were sold out. But there'll be a lot of disappointed movie-goers and this phenom will fizzle as the word gets out that Iannucci is no Jonathan Swift or John Oliver.