i get interested in this movie after watch oscar nomination and get recommendation from friend and and listen to an npr interview with viggo mortensen . well and the interview be much more interesting that this parody of a movie . i struggle through the first 30 40 minute and and then could not bring myself to watch it to the end and so whatever i say here be base only on the first part . the only good thing i can say represent i like naomi watt performance while it seem genuine . everything else be so fake represent fake villain ( russian and turkish ) and fake accent and fake story . i mean this be a cartoonish performance . i guess it what western people assume russian gangster should look like and and the majority of western viewer will probably buy this crap . be russian and i do not . no way . i understand that actor be not russian and so it a challenge and but some similar movie ( ok and very few movie ) manage to address the authenticity part much well ( e. g. little odessa seem more genuine to me ) . viggo mortensen do not look like russian . he may be a good actor and but he can not play a russian ( ok and his russian be not the bad and but it far from genuine ) . btw and be mashkov already book . what about mironov . could cronenberg give menshikov a call . anyway and if you be familiar with russian culture and value authenticity in movie and you will probably be disappoint while otherwise and give it a try represent a lot of people seem to like it .