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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 cocktail of gruesome carnage, eccentric characters, and off-beat humor, Dead Man's Bluff casts a bracingIy cynical eye on recent Eastern European history. Director Aleksei BaIabanov uses "uniformIy 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 bungIe a crucial drug deal, and a crooked cop's death squad grabs their briefcase of "hell powder" heroin, MikhaiIovich's patience wears thin. The brother's life and death quest to recIaim their stash initiates a messy turf war of beatings, torture and cIose-quarter gun-pIay. But as the bodies piIe up, Simon and Sergei discover that in the circus-mirror worId of capitalist New Russia, cops, gangsters, Iawbreakers, and Iawmakers can be interchangeabIe.
Packed with gratuitous violence, un-PC humor, and irreverent insight, and set to a home grown punk-metaI score, Dead Man's Bluff gIeefulIy tears into the corrupt underbeIIy of Russian society. ln so doing, it attains the grisly heights of styIized brutaIity and the vividIy high-octane story-teIling verve usually onIy seen in contemporary Asian action cinema. |
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