Truly wretched
I would have liked to like a movie about moral ambiguity, but this was turgid tripe. Deliberately and pointlessly oblique. Terrible lighting -- not done to enhance the dark story but to hide its Eastern Europe location (not that anyone really cares about that; yes, it'd be weird to see Cyrillic in the background, but this looks as if it was shot by an amateur, or a 2nd unit type.) Cuba is about as subtle as a thrown brick. The usually good Kim Coates eats the scenery w/o the slightest pulling on his bridle. Maybe his brother is a better director.
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