The plot is so formulaic to the extent of torturous. The characters, while performed by great actors, all behave like stoic robots going through the motion, not to mention the atrocious "Russian" accents, they are so bad that even a comedic stereotype would be better by bounds and leaps.

The biggest flaw is perhaps brazenly force feeding so many Cold War Soviet stereotypes down our throats. Examples include going on and on about "serving the state", "the state owns your body", "survival at all costs" and "only powerful men matter". I get it, the movie wants me to equate Russia with the totalitarian evil empire.that was the Soviet Union.

Simply a huge waste of opportunity. This could have been a decent movie if there were an engaging story and the politics more tastefully handled.