ryanbartlett-870-746486 A great British take on a great Russian tragedy. Death of Stalin brings the humor into Moscow where it is not normally found. A surprising film that was surprisingly well made. Not that the ingredients weren't there to make a great product, but it wasn't very well advertised, or really intended for a mainstream American audience. The film hinges one hundred percent on the enjoyment of British-styled humor. From very blunt dry humor to long specific jokes that are very well explained, it is definitely not the typical American comedy. For those who can keep up, it is a real treat, for those that don't enjoy the humor, or can't understand the style, this film turns into a very hard film to watch.

theemperrors To start off this is one of the best movies i've seen in a while. It's a fresh breath when it comes down to movies about history and Russia as a whole. Not that there are this many movies about Jozef Stalin or the Red army and their period in history. It instantly showed us the fear people had for and the power Stalin had. Some visual gags like men falling off the stairs in the background etc. actually made me giggle a bit, slapstick has been dead for a while yet in this amount it worked. The movie gave ma Doctor Strangelove feeling when it came down to the comedy and laughing about a serious topic. As a movie fanatic I could never have imagined a movie about Stalin his (surprising) natural death to be this funny. It's not a stupid Adam Sandler esc. comedy but a well written smart dark-comedy. The costumes and acting performances delivered by the respected actors are phenomenal. I think that the best thing is that for the first time in my memory Steve Buscemi doesn't die in this movie. It's funny how overacting can sometimes work in this movie, it's well established how Stalin his "Friends" are scared of him and this gets them in some hilarious shenanigans for the first half of the movie. As for the writing it's great, some clever banter as they struggle to get his body out of the room. This tone continues for the rest of the movie. Now to conclude this to be classic : acting : Great, Costumes and sets : Amazing, Cinematography : Good , Directing : For a relativly unknown director a masterpiece, Writing : As said before without a doubt the best thing about the movie.

BasicLogic So you guys used the death of Stalin to get even of what you guys used to scared to death how and when and what the Soviet Russia might have done to the West and especially the European countries under his iron-clad dictatorship? You guys finally got the chance to ridicule all those clowns around this tyrant and by means of a dramatized film. You think the most fearful Communist country was once administered and controlled by these clown-like peers? The so-called long and endless "Kill List" drafted by Beria, the executioner and the butcher's assistant, who carried it out for Stalin, but after the passing of Joseph Stalin, "he had been defeated by an anti-Beria coalition (led by Georgy M. Malenkov, Vyacheslav M. Molotov, and Nikita S. Khrushchev). He was arrested, deprived of his government and party posts, and publicly accused of being an "imperialist agent" and of conducting "criminal antiparty and antistate activities." Convicted of these charges at his trial in December 1953, Beria was immediately executed." So you British film makers could use Stalin's and the turmoil aftermath to draft up such ridiculous film to make even of the scare-shit-less fact how you guys feared 24/7/365? The logic of you guys' thinking is obviously impaired beyond remedy. How the most fearful Communist nation in the world was once administered by such bunch of clowns and scared you guys to death? By dreaming up such a political farce was just like doing a DIY masturbation, trying to holistically heal an half-century nightmare. This film is not even qualified as a "political comedy" but a childish "political farce". If you have the least sanity and I.Q., you should pass it by all means.

Todd Kinsey This movie was just awful!!! You would think with such a great cast this would be a great movie but it's just terrible. I don't know what they were going for but it totally missed the boat with me. I believe they were going for a comedy but it's not. It's definitely not a drama either, it just sucks!