While there does appear to be an overabundance of GRU funded FancyBear negative reviews on this film ( and it is easy to see why ), it is actually a very well made Spy vs Spy Thriller in the classic John le Carré mode, not quite the cold distant calculation of a George Smiley, and not quite the cartoon quality of a James Bond.

Some feel this film creates a caricature of the post Soviet Russia, and this is not fully true, while modern Russia is not the Soviet State and few if any of the individuals we see in this film are "average" Russians, it is instead an interesting window into an Oligarch Mafia-State that tightly controls all forms of dissent and communication, in that sense the portraiture of the individuals in power is not far from the Truth.

Well worth watching.