ARCHANGEL (2005) ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Jon Jones
Daniel Craig, Yekatarina Rednikova, Gabriel Macht,
Lev Prygunov, Alexey Diakov, Harry Ditson,
Kaspars Zvigulis, Valery Chernyak, Avtandil Makharadze
A history professor attending a conference in Moscow gets caught up in a murder investigation and a mystery dating back to the last days of Josef Stalin. Daniel Craig plays the academic, but this guy's no James Bond. When he and a journalist played by Gabriel Macht are cornered and an evil guy orders them to dance, they dance. A diverting bit of escape made for the BBC, shot on location in Moscow and Latvia and based on a novel by Robert Harris. If you're somebody who misses the old Soviet Union and thinks the second coming of Stalin could signal a return to the good old days, this might be the movie for you.
