The Death of Stalin
BBFC rating: 15
Directed by: Armando Iannucci
Cast: Steve Buscemi, Jeffrey Tambor, Micheal Palin, Jason Issacs, Olga Kurylenko, Simon Russel Beale
The Death of Stalin revolves around how the Soviet Government handled the death of their dictator in the early 1950's, and Armando Iannucci brings his classic satire comedy to the film in a brilliant take on the subject. Ianucci does well to introduce all of his characters, and to keep them important through the whole film, as well as keeping the comedy going throughout the whole film, something which a lot of modern comedies are unable to do. I Think Jason Issac's character of Zhukov was the stand out character in the film, being the most entertaining of all of the. Steve Buscemi and Tambor where brilliant as the main leads to the film, and it does well to keep track of its story and plot , not losing it half way in the film to keep the comedy going. The start of the film is very slow however, and is very jumpy, with scenes that set up plot but are not returned o in the rest of the film, which would have been better if they had some reference later on in the film and served more of a purpose. However once you get into the film it works very well. One of the most obvious touches to the film and one of the most effective, s the choice to keeps everyone accents as they are, rather than having them all do a Russian one and taking away from the film, bringing more realism to the satire at play throughout the film. Iannucci isn't afraid to add some dark moments into the film as well, keeping the film enticing, and keeps the satire flowing by adding jokes to some relatively serious scenes to keep the comedy and the realism as one. Honestly this is one of my top films of 2017, which was a really hard category to get into, and possibly one of the est comedies out there.
Contains frequent bad language and distressing images.
My rating 9.4/10
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