 |
I would say these are B movies. The basics of the movies were great. The acting in some good, some ok, some not that great. I find most movies would be better if there was more time, i.e. like a mini series and I would say that goes for these as well. The Russian Specialist (The Mechanik) is primarily a medium budget action film set in Russia. If more time and money spent on the script dialouge it would have been a much better movie, but it was good enough to watch. Little Nikita is a decent movie about Soviet sleeper agents being killed off in the U.S. The acting of the kid didn't seem quite right for the charachter and his parents performance was a little weak but otherwise it was a good movie. Those 2 movies were set in the late 80's just a few years before the fall of the U.S.S.R. A Dandy In Aspic is a 1960's British spy film where MI5/MI6 are trying to figure out who is a Soviet Double agent that is identifying British spies who are targeted and killed. If you like spie movies and the style of acting in the 60's then you'll probably like this movie. A Man On A String came across a bit stiff. A 1950's film about a U.S. citizen formerly a U.S.S.R. citizen being blackmailed to a certain extent to allow Soviet spies to use his business as a cover. Sometimes it seemed a bit like watching a 1950's educational film. The way it was presented, it came across as a film made for instructing high school kids a moral lesson. It probably was an ok film in the 1950's but today it comes across a bit simplistic.Read full review
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: New
Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Best Selling in DVDs & Blu-ray Discs
Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Save on DVDs & Blu-ray Discs
Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- You may also like
