This is another 2007 movie that’s getting some award nomination love.  As far as impact, I didn’t think it holds a candle to No Country for Old Men.  The story, about transplanted Russian gangsters in London, was somewhat weak.  The most memorable scene in the film is undoubtedly the one during which Viggo Mortenson engages in an extended fully-nude knife fight with two bad guys in a steam room.  (Must . . .resist . . .Anduril, Flame of the West reference. . . .Failed.)

I guess the main point of the movie was to show that some Russian dudes are moving West and they are, as the kids say, badass.  That’s actually something worth saying.  Given the rather amazing things getting into the news in the last few years (assassination by radiation poisoning, rampant murder of journalists), I think a number of interesting movies could be made about Russian mobsters/political corruption.