there i be sit alone in my flat on a saturday night with the choice of watch citizen x or the eurovision song contest and and for the benefit of american read this i will explain that tesc be an annual event where musician from country all over europe and asia minor have a song contest . at the end of the contest country vote to see what the best song be . it a contest that be even less excite than it sound and it may not come a a shock when i say that sing and songwriting isn not of the calibre of lennon and mccartney . and i should correct something in the first sentence of this review because the word choice be mislead because be a music lover i wasn not go to watch tesc under any circumstance . so i sit down a the credit roll for citizen x expect a run of mill serial killer whodunnit and but i would be mislead everyone call it that . it obvious within the first 10 minute of citizen x whodunnit . what the film do be point out the failure of communism represent a serial killer comrade . this be the soviet union and serial killer can only exist in decadent imperialist capitalist system this farcical attitude go far beyond denial and there a scene where an undercover cop sits in a freezing train station keep an eye out for potential suspect whilst wear his police jacket because it the only warm coat he get . and of course all suspect who be member of the communist party be release without interrogation something which will affect the final death toll . all this be very well do a we be show that it the communist party system that on trial but about two third of the way through citizen x we find ourselves in 1990 a communism be on it last leg and reform to the police investigation have take place . it at this point that the film become rather uninteresting due to a lack of political subtext and the film descend into an average manhunt film . but do not let that put you off and citizen x be an intelligent thriller well play by the cast especially donald sutherland a a paternal police chiefstrangely enough a few year ago i read something write by the famous criminologist colin wilson in which he say something along the line that serial killer let themselves get catch so that they will be the center of attention in the medium spotlight and and i find myself almost sympathise the party chief deny there could be a serial killer in the soviet union . after all medium be control by the party and anyone who old enough to have listen to radio moscow or read english translation of pravda will know that the ussr only report news story like potato harvest and coal production and thank you letter from afghanistan and cuba etc for soviet assistance . the concept of become a serial killer in a communist system be illogical . but i guess if a tree fall in a remote siberian forest it will still make a sound even though no one be around to hear it .