Joke wears thin

Rating: 4/10 (28 April 2018)

The film is funny and shocking, but the use of English/American accents made it seem an oddity.
It begins with the wonderfully comic, surrealistic Radio Moscow set piece, with a fantastic turn from Considine. The film capture the comedy as well as the paranoia that comes with everyday life under Stalin. The standout's are Isaacs' Yorkshire Field Marshall, and Russell Beale's creepy, comic turn.
The jokes, though, begin to seem increasingly incongruous as we realise how many people have actually died and are continuing to die. The rape jokes in particular were inexcusable. It may be historically accurate, but maybe Stalin's terror and its aftermath isn't such a good subject for comedy after all.