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Gets worse as it goes . . . (Spoilers)


This started out doing a good job of building up the pressure and intrigue. I actually liked the whole historian-gone-action-hero thing that started happening. But the minute they get in the car and start looking for Stalin Jr., it jumps the shark big time. Mini-Josef was laughably rediculous - he was more like Dracula Jr. with the porn mustache and his hair wasn't nearly impressive enough to be Stalinesque.
It almost reeked of having one writer quit halfway and another with a totally different vision take over afterwards.

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"Stalinesque?"

The real Josef Stalin was very short with a pockmarked face. If anything the actor playing his son looked too tall and attractive.

Historical note: Stalin really did have two sons by his two different wives. The first one, Jakob, he treated like sh*t. Jakob was captured by the Germans during World War II and died in a Nazi POW camp. Stalin ignored a German offer to exchange him for a German general taken prisoner.

Stalin's other son (by his second wife) was treated much better by his father. He (Vasily) became a general in the Soviet air force. But he also drank heavily and died soon after his father.

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Brillant novel, The harsh father, redeemed at the end. The agony of the nation struggling like a lame dog stumbling.

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I just watched this on Amazon Prime and was going to say the same thing. It just exploded stupid in the last 1/2 hour.

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