Oh hi capitalist friends! Here comes review from modern russian man who dont vote for Vladimir Putin and cares about human rights.

And what i can say about this movie? Its bad as my english.

Reason 1. Stupid cultural references and mistakes. And first one is that girl have typical russian name Dominika. I think that it can be shocking ,but this name cannot belongs to any girl in Russia. This mistake of writer was corrected by russian translators to Veronika cause this mistake will not allow you watch movie seriously. Now a little about distortion of russian reality. If somebody wants to know something about Russia, this movie won't helps at all. Such kind of poor cultural appropriation for ex-USSR viewers can be percieved only as comedy (as Borat of Sacha Baron Cohen), but in case of this movie with some scenes of sex and extremely serious tone.

Reason 2. Strange plot. As for me i think that modern spy need to know something more than sexual tricks. But seems not. I find a lot of logic mistakes in hero's motivation

Reason 3. Bad acting. Thanks Jeremy Irons and Joel (sometimes!) this movie wasn't total disaster.