Deliciously delicate waste of time

Rating: 3/10 (29 January 2018)

This movie deserves a couple of statuettes for beautiful sets and costumes. However I primarily watched it because it's currently in line for best movie Oscar according to oddschecker. I was disappointed. The scenario is just bad notwithstanding the fact that it's not particularly fresh idea, perhaps even plagiarism. It's like Peter Jackson's remake of King Kong, only very dark (to hide cheap CGI), slow and boring. My jaw hurt from all the yawning.
American actors trying to speak Russian and failing spectacularly used to make me laugh years ago. Now they just make me angry. Could you just hire Russian actors or at least spend extra day teaching the ones you have basics of language pronunciations, so that Russian speakers would not need subtitles to understand them? No, they just give them cue cards with vocalisations of gibberish and make them finish the scenes in one take.