I was actually looking forward to watching this movie and it didn't look half as bad as it was but that was REALLY BAD. Out of the 53 movies I've seen this year it's the WORST one. Absolutely boring, what was supposed to be a two hour movie felt like a FOUR HOUR history lesson. Something that stood out to me was how Paul Dano's character had pretty much NO emotion. From the unnecessary narration, to the chapter title cards, it was almost like someone reading straight from a textbook. What makes it worse is that this movie has lots of potential and could have been so much better than what we got. As for the ending, so many questions were left unanswered, but that's probably on me for not being too invested in this movie. Going into this movie I expected this to be more about Putin and his rise to power and more about what was going on at the time, instead what we got was a lengthy boring biopic about his ASSISTANT. Anyone who wants to chime in, feel free to do so.
Dumb question but throughout the movie I kinda felt like the assistant guy (Dano) was more on top of things than Putin himself was and would make Putin look dumb. Did anyone else see this too? Not trying to get political here at all, just something I noticed.