Viggo Mortensen

Naomi Watts

Vincent Cassel

Armin Mueller-Stahl

Sinéad Cusack

Donald Sumpter

Jerzy Skolimowski

Josef Altin

Mina E. Mina

Aleksandar Mikic

Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse

Tatiana Maslany

Tereza Srbova

David Papava

Tamer Hassan

Raza Jaffrey

Elisa Lasowski

Alice Henley

Tony Cook

Shannon-Fleur Roux

Badi Uzzaman

Doña Croll

Lillibet Langley

Mia Soteriou

Radosław Kaim

Rhodri Miles

Cristina Catalina

Faton Gerbeshi

Gergo Danka

Michael Sarne

Boris Isarov

Yuri Klimov

Andrzej Borkowski

Olegar Fedoro

Julia Blackman

Carol Spier

Ronald Sanders

Denise Cronenberg

Peter Suschitzky

Steven Knight

David Cronenberg

Howard Shore

David M. Thompson

Paul Webster

Jeff Abberley

Robert Lantos

Stephen Garrett

Deirdre Bowen

Nina Gold

Catherine Palmer

Charmaine Fuller

David Packard

Michael O'Farrell

Paul Herbert

Judy Farr

Mary-Lou Green-Benvenuti

Wayne Griffin

Robert J. Dugdale

Jennifer Dunnington

Fiona Campbell Westgate

Paul Sacco

Mark Zsifkovits

Aaron Weintraub

Alf Tramontin

Rob Bertola

Christine Blundell

Camilla Stephenson

Roger Tooley

Peter Mountain

David Broder

Prudence Emery

Orest Sushko

Susanna Lenton

Tracey Seaward

Nick Palmer

Rebecca Holmes

Bruce Bigg

Lucy Allen

Julian Spencer

John Roberts

Nick Iannelli

Tony Currie

Alastair Gray

Dave Muscat

Goro Koyama

Andy Malcolm

George Cottle

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chauffeur

london, england

prostitute

jealousy

rape

tattoo

hitman

parent child relationship

bratva (russian mafia)

gangster

human trafficking

diary

midwife

murder

statutory rape

orphan

brutality

motorcycle

disposing of a dead body

bathhouse

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Andre Gonzales

Really dumb boring movie. I'm just glad that I got this movie for free and didn't have to waste money on this garbage movie.

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"Anna" (Naomi Watts) in the well meaning midwife who wants to repatriate a recently orphaned child with the family of it's deceased mother. All she has to go on is a diary, in Russian, so she takes it to her uncle "Stepan" (Jerzy Skolimowski) who doesn't really want anything to do with it! There's another clue, though - a card that leads her to a restaurant where she meets "Semyon" (Armin Mueller-Stahl), his rather obnoxious son "Kirill" (Vincent Cassel) and his henchman "Nikolai" (Viggo Mortensen). She gets the older man to agree to do some translating for her, but in the meantime her uncle has also decided to have a go after all - and what "Anna" soon discovers sends a shiver down her spine! She now has an idea as to the paternity of the child, but given what she is now experiencing, she faces quite a quandary in knowing what is best (and safest) to actually do. As she and her own family become more embroiled in the perilous antics of London's gangland activities, it might be that she needs to rely a little on "Nikolai" - the only piece on the board that might be able to help. What now ensues is a well acted and scripted story of power, violence brutality and family - and woe-betides anyone who crosses the hierarchy from the mother country. Watts is on good form here and of the men, Mortensen competently takes the top billing - but it's Cassel - usually a good character actor - who stands out here as the vodka-swilling and truly odious brute, and as the denouement looms the tension is palpable and the conclusion anything but predictable. This works better on a big screen if you can as that evokes a better sense of a London with an evil underbelly, but either way it's still at the better end of the vicious crime genre.

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A review by Andre Gonzales

Written by Andre Gonzales on Wed Jul 12 2023

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