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Title: All Costume and No Drama
Review: This is a big-budget Costume Drama that is All Costume and No Drama. It wastes very good actors (Ed Harris, Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Bob Hoskins) on a very thin script and very lavish production-values. There is hardly any suspense, and it's a pity to see actors try so hard with so little to work with. The high point is seeing how much Bob Hoskins looks like Kruschev. We used to hear that the personal is political; this movie takes the opposite position, that all politics is merely personal. Pretty ham-handed and silly; and you can see the actors squirming to deliver their lines. Propagandistic and tiresome; but visually beautiful.
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