ok everybody be so enthuse by this film i hardly dare add a negative review but i just do not enjoy this movie . i have to say first i saw the film in russian language overdub so i will have miss some dialog and but not much . nice thing first . there be some hilarious moment ( the elvis impersonator for instance ) . actor seem well cast and also the russian . efremova be great and goldblum be very good . which bring u to the downside of this movie . first of all . there be hardly any story and the end we know already represent yeltsin win . so no drama or suspense . they try to solve this problem with an emerge affair between the actor mention above and but that story kind of evaporates . more importantly and the film do not represent reality . the russian at the level of politics and society portray in this movie be not funny and they be a serious and dangerous lot . i be willing to believe that fly in some spin doctor from the state help yeltsin win his campaign and but the real interesting question that should be address be represent who finance the campaign and what do they get in return and how be the opposition handle apart from air some commercial . so what we have here be a film and loosely base on reality ( but strangely avoid anything that could make the film either historically relevant or just a very good political thriller ) without plot or subplot .