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- Based on Tom Rob Smith's novel, CHILD 44 is a thriller with no thrills. It's too long, too dreary, and too overly serious. It's supposed to feel like a period piece set in another culture, but the by-the-numbers English-language dialogue and the sneering, one-dimensional bad guys make it seem more like a Hollywood dress-up party.
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In 1950s Soviet Russia, secret police agent Leo Demidov (Tom Hardy) loses everything when he refuses to denounce his wife, Raisa (Noomi Rapace) as a traitor.
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- Daniel Espinosa
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Parents need to know that Child 44 is a book-based thriller set in 1950s Soviet Russia about a disgraced secret police agent who goes hunting for a child murderer. There's lots of brutal violence, including shooting and stabbing (with accompanying blood spurts), fighting, a woman being slapped and smacked,….
- Daniel Espinosa
- Jeffrey M. Anderson
- Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, Gary Oldman
Apr 17, 2015 · Child 44. This weekend’s Communist period piece “Child 44” has suffered an incriminating fate that even “Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2” avoided: Russia banned it right before its release, stating that the film reflected upon the nation with evocations of Mordor (the evil land from J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings”), and in an ...
Child 44 isn't a bad movie, but its flaws are glaring. It's not the dark, edgy thriller you'd expect. In fact, to call it a thriller would be a misnomer. Child 44 is a tone-deaf political drama filled to the brim with wasted potential.
Apr 17, 2015 · Despite the “implausibility and the story’s scattered plot, Child 44 has portions of a compelling drama. And Hardy is thoroughly mesmerizing.” The movie “could have been far more compelling...
Apr 16, 2015 · Adapted from the first novel in a trilogy by British writer Tom Rob Smith, the film is a pensive and bracingly brutal mystery which takes too long to become emotionally engaging.
Child 44 is a 2015 mystery thriller film directed by Daniel Espinosa, written by Richard Price, and based on Tom Rob Smith's 2008 novel of the same name. The film stars an ensemble cast featuring Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Noomi Rapace, Joel Kinnaman, Paddy Considine, Jason Clarke, and Vincent Cassel. It was released on 17 April 2015. [4]
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