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A surprisingly good book-to-movie adaptation, 21. Februar 2006
Rezension bezieht sich auf: Archangel [UK Import] (DVD)
Most book-to-movie adaptations positively stink but "Archangel" is the exception to the rule. This adaptation from the Robert Harris book is positively good and the director has stayed faithful to Harris' story.
Daniel Craig shines as Professor "Fluke" Kelso, a British history professor based out of New York, a "specialist in all things Stalin". Trying to resurrect a struggling career, Kelso meets an old man who claims he was present the night in 1953 when Stalin died. The old man leads Kelso to Stalin's secret notebook but is then brutally murdered in his apartment. The notebook leads Kelso, the old man's daughter, and an American reporter O'Brien, to a forest in the northern city of Archangel where secrets from the Soviet past are hidden. The present-day Russian government sends special forces commandos with orders to make sure that the secrets in Archangel stay hidden but the past breaks free in one bloody battle and sets events in motion which ensures that history has a good chance of repeating itself...
An excellent movie. If you loved the book, you'll love this movie. Highly recommended.
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Routine, 3. April 2007
Rezension bezieht sich auf: Archangel [UK Import] (DVD)
All the old clichés are rolled out early in this adaptation of Robert Harris's spy novel 'Archangel': surly Russians, an arrogant English hero, a garrulous American. There's also a certain amount of expository dialogue: in an early scene, a leading academic makes a speech to a conference in which he makes the dramatic revelation that Stalin was evil. 'Archangel' is certainly no 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy', and the thin characterisation makes the early stages tedious to watch. But in the middle, it improves greatly, as a conventional but tautly scripted thriller begins to take shape. Sadly, the ending can't quite deliver on this promise; both because of the risible suggestion that megalomania is an inherited quality, and also because it is surely not (as the film suggests) the worship of Stalin's image that is the real problem in today's Russia, but rather, the social circumstances which make such an absurdity possible. Still, it's always interesting to get a glimpse of the great Russian north on camera, and lead actress Yekaterina Rednikova looks very sexy smoking a cigarette. But overall, this is routine stuff.
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