Insanely funny, but you have to know a little history to appreciate it.

Rating: Null/10 (4 April 2018)

The death of Stalin (Man of Steel) just opened in Sydney, Australia. Now, Australians have there own sense of humour and incline to British humour. Thankfully this film is full of the British kind. That being despite Steve B , an American, upping his acting chops and playing an ensemble role, which I could not imagine any other American comedian condesending to do, let alone do well. Now I confess I knew a bit about this as my father is a Russian speaking journalist. I hope he sees it, but LOL, he would only review it if he was paid for the review. The acting is outstanding. Jason Issacs (Draco''s dad in Harry Potter) is utterly brillant, despite not appearing until halfway thru the film. I've heard a lot, a LOT of really bad things about Beria, and I struggled to see him in any way a comic figure, but Beale hit exactly the right note. The script was probably hilarious to start will, but put it in the hands of these comedians and it doubles in power and story. Certain techniques such as slo-mo introductions to the characters and small case written on screen names, because if you have never heard of 'comrade Kruschev', you are not going to remember the Russian names. and tho' a comedy, it is to the best of my knowledge, fairly accurate in what happened, tho' I did think Beria died in bed with a 15 year old, but that may be prophaganda on the West's part. I suspect that people with no knowledge of the history will take it for fiction. Americans certainly will be confused. How did a man with a Spanish name get to direct this? Were all the Russian directors scared Stalin would rise from the dead and put their names on a list? 2018 is shaping up to be a great year for movies.