Reviews
Gorky Park (1983)
Not bad, not bad at all
I didn't have high expectations, but was pleasantly surprised. It's hard to write anything about this type of film without spoiling, but what I can say without telling too much about the plot is, that the film is a non-cliché film, which still is full of clichés (love scene being the biggest). Filming locations are good, though "Moscow" (Helsinki) is a bit too similar to Stockholm.
The movie may be a bit too long for the American taste, but for more European film taste the length was just perfect. The end was so complicated, that even Agatha Christie would have been proud. The final solution between the main characters was completely different from what I expected, and definitely was that cherry for the cake.
****/5
Moscow on the Hudson (1984)
Comical in a pathetic way
Although this does score some goals when describing the life in the Soviet Union, the view this movie gives is extremely pro-American. Of course the movie was made to entertain American people, not to do a documentary film about the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, but still the blindness of this movie makes me cry, not laugh.