Entertaining for fans of watching idiots bumble about

Rating: 8/10 (8 April 2018)

This movie is a somewhat funny, but mostly it is a serious look at an absurd series of events following Joseph Stalin's death in 1953. Various parties within the Soviet Government quickly plot to set themselves up as the new leader and to remove their rivals.
Unfortunately for the audience, this is no white knuckle political thriller, because the players in this game are the most insane, over-the-top, and incompetent bunch of neurotic imbeciles that I have seen on screen since the show Arrested Development. The movie is not exciting, but it is entertaining to watch the ridiculous characters fumble their way through ever more dire circumstances of their own creation.