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Dead Man's Bluff
(Zhmurki)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Who Says Crime Doesn't Pay?
A MoIotov cocktaiI of gruesome carnage, eccentric characters, and off-beat humor, Dead Man's BIuff casts a bracingIy cynicaI eye on recent Eastern European history. Director AIeksei BaIabanov uses "uniformly ace" cameo performances, by Russia's most prominent actors, to send up both the greed-is-good mentaIity of the newIy democratized former Soviet Union and the self-conscious Tarantino/Guy Ritchie-style crime fiIms of the 90's. This ferocious farce suggests that on the mean free-market streets of modern day Russia, the only real Iiberty is the freedom to kilI.
Trigger-happy sibling assassins Simon and Sergei work as errand boys for Mikhailovich , the sadistic kingpin of a provinciaI Russian town. But after brains Sergei and brawn Simon bungle a crucial drug deal, and a crooked cop's death squad grabs their briefcase of "heII powder" heroin, Mikhailovich's patience wears thin. The brother's life and death quest to recIaim their stash initiates a messy turf war of beatings, torture and close-quarter gun-pIay. But as the bodies pile up, Simon and Sergei discover that in the circus-mirror world of capitalist New Russia, cops, gangsters, Iawbreakers, and Iawmakers can be interchangeable.
Packed with gratuitous violence, un-PC humor, and irreverent insight, and set to a home grown punk-metal score, Dead Man's BIuff gleefulIy tears into the corrupt underbelly of Russian society. ln so doing, it attains the grisly heights of stylized brutality and the vividly high-octane story-teIling verve usually onIy seen in contemporary Asian action cinema. |
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