Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

Borserie it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

ThrillMessage There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

Plustown A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

SnoopyStyle Arkady Renko (William Hurt) is a Moscow police detective. They find three bodies in Gorky Park with their faces and fingers cut off. KGB arrives right away but nobody wants the case. The girl was wearing skates stolen from Irina Asanova (Joanna Pacula). As Arkady investigates, the case leads to the government with possible KGB connections. Jack Osborne (Lee Marvin) is an American with government influence and dating Irina. William Kirwill (Brian Dennehy) is an American looking for his brother James. Soon Osborne becomes a prime suspect.This has a bit of quite a few different genre. It's got the CSI police investigation thriller. It has that cold moody murder like a Scandinavian murder mystery. It also has the communist KGB political intrigue. In the center of it all, William Hurt holds the movie together in a murky police/political thriller. It just has a great murder mystery mood.

Maziun „Gorky Park " is a crime thriller set in Soviet Union . The main hero is Russian police officer who tries to solve a mystery involving three dead people , who were murdered in Moscow's Gorky Park . The film is set during the twilight years of the old Soviet Union, the brief interlude between the death of Leonid Brezhnev (an event referred to in the script) and the rise of the liberal, reforming Mikhail Gorbachev. The atmosphere of Soviet Union is a one full of cynicism and corruption. I won't spoil the movie by saying that Renko's ( main hero of the movie played by William Hurt ) investigation will lead him to people at the top of Soviet Establishment.The movie may have a Russian hero , but is far from being pro-Soviet. The Soviet system here is soulless and ruthless . It's a hell on Earth for decent people . The movie couldn't been made in Soviet Union , so Helsinki play the part of Moscow. Director Michael Apted and cinematographer Ralf Bode were still able to give us a cold, bleak atmosphere of the USRR."Gorky Park " is a example of 80's neo-noir movie . This genre is obviously inspired by Humprey Bogart movies. It includes several common features that must appear in this kind of movie :-a lonely hero who is outwardly unemotional , but inwardly feels everything very deeply.He acts like a cynical asshole , but he believes in justice . He will risk his life for the cause he believes in. -a femme fatale who is also main hero's love interest . A woman who isn't either good or bad . -a corrupted system -a powerful villain who is connected to the Establishment -bittersweet conclusionWilliam Hurt is a great choice for the main hero , because he knows how to play men who find it difficult to express their feelings . Everything you need to know is written on his face. He doesn't have to shout or gesticulate to show the audience the true depths of his soul. Equally great is Joanna Pacula who plays the main female character in the movie. She was nominated for Golden Globe for her performance. It isn't surprising , because she really makes the audience care for Irina – a woman trying desperately to get out of USRR. Too bad that after this something went wrong and she started to appear in rather bad movies ( with the exception of "Escape from Sobibor" ).The rest of the cast is also solid , especially Bryan Dennehy ( "Rambo : First blood" ) and Lee Marvin ( " Dirty dozen") . The screenplay from Dennis Potter is intelligent. The music made by James Horner is great , even if a little too loud and a rip-off "48 hours". The movie doesn't try to shock you withviolence or plot twists , but rather allows you to enjoy watching as all the puzzles start to make sense.This is one of the better thrillers of the 80's. If you're looking for neo-noir movie you should also watch "Body heat "(also with William Hurt) and "No mercy" (with Richard Gere and Kim Basinger). "Gorky Park " is a solid thriller that made me cry at the end of the movie . It holds up even better on re-watch . I give it 8/10.

Brundlefly I've always wanted to see this film but didn't until I watched it on NetFlix in 2010.The main problem with this film is the screenplay - I didn't read the book, but I am guessing the screenplay is very faithful, because it plays like Masterpiece Theatre with a budget.As a result, its a long movie, but I suspect it was much longer as their are some situations and scenes which seem to have had supporting scenes which were cut.There is just no interesting flow to this movie at all, the characters and relationships are very poorly developed, and the actors don't seem to have any significant investment in their characters or motivations either. Its almost like watching a long screen test.Which is too bad - WIlliam Hurt and Brian Denehy are great actors, but could have both been replaced with competent unknowns - it probably would have been a better film, actually, as the viewer wouldn't keep asking themselves 'Why is Hurt acting like a limp noodle?' or 'Was Brian Denehy attached to this project late?'There is no voice coaching in this movie - everyone speaks English - which is fine, since its an American movie - but the actor's individual accents are not coached out - the Russians in this movie mostly speak with British accents, but they vary into other accents as well. No Russian is fine, but at least keep the accents consistent.There are some weird moments in the movie also - like 'how do the police come to know this pristine snow blanket is covering a murder scene"? Or 'Why did William Hurt just profess love to someone he barely knows?' or 'Why is William Hurt completely unconcerned that the man he has come to kill just pulled a pistol out of a drawer and loaded it?' or 'Why did Lee Marvin take that pistol out of the drawer in the first place'?Its obvious stuff like this was taken out of the book, which had explanatory non-dialog text which put it into context, but when transferred to the screen, they forgot that the audience does not have access to that text.An occasional musical interlude of 80's synth pad and drum machine also painfully dates the movie at certain points.Anyways, a real yawner that seemed to try to capitalize on a bestselling book by throwing some budget and talent into a big vat with a book and stirring - but no one really bothered to make a movie here.

sol1218 **SPOILERS** When three faceless bodies are found buried in the snow in Moscow's Gorky Park the city's police militia chief inspector Ankavy Renko, William Hurt, and his assistance Pasha, Michael Elphick, are immediately called on the scene. Things like this just don't happen in Moscow and the head of the city's police, Alexanderr Knox, wan't the killer or killers found before a panic breaks out among the population.Right away Renko realized that there was a lot more to this triple murder then what at first meets the eye. Why did the killer slice off his victims faces with surgical precision and even more surprising why did the dreaded KGB in the person of Maj. Pribluda, Rikki Fulton, take over the murder case which didn't seem to involve national security? Or did it! Renko gets his first break on this puzzling case when it's reported that one of the victims-a woman-ice skates was reported to have been stolen from Russian actress Irina Asanova, Joanna Pacula, about a week before she was found murdered and mutilated in Gorky Park! That person is later identified as being Valerya Davidova, Marjaha Nissinen, who just happened to have attended the same collage with Irina as well as being her best friend! It also comes out that the other two bodies found at the murder site were that of Kostia Borodin, Heikki Leppanen, and American tourist James Kirwill, Jukka Hirvikangas, who were unloved in smuggling desperate Russian citizens out of the Soviet Union. It's James' brother a detective in the NYPD William Kirwill, Brian Dennehy, who's now in Moscow looking to find his murderer and bring him to justice! This in fact complicates things even more then they already are for the Moscow Police with Kirwill not willing to cooperating with them but going on his own in finding his brother's killer. In putting all the pieces together Renko soon finds out that the three murder victims as well as the terrified, in what would happen to her if she talks, Irina are all linked together to one person: American successful businessman and entrepreneur Jack Osborne, Lee Marvin!Osborne it soon comes out has an inside track with higher ups in both the KGB and Moscow City Government and is in fact untouchable from the law even in the case of a multiple murder that he may very well have committed! As a by now obsessed Renko digs up more evidence on Osborne his life becomes endangered in that he's not just dealing with Osborne but top KGB officials as well as those in his own department, the Moscow Police Milita, who will go as far as murder to keep him from finding out the truth! A truth so shockingly mind boggling that if Osborne succeeds with what he's, and his renegade KGB and Moscow Police accomplices, attempting to do it can lead to the collapse of a major part of the Soviet economy that the Soviet Union totally monopolizes!Unusual movie about Soviet Police procedure that doesn't have people being tortured and beating into giving written confessions to crimes that they didn't commit. In fact the way that Moscow Police Milita Chief Investigator Renko goes about his business in uncovering a baffling mass murder is so professional and calculating that even many US & Western Europe police department can learn from it. ***SPOILERS*** The movie ends in a OK Corral style shoot-out in the frozen woods outside Stockholm Sweden-not Moscow-where Osborne planned to not only make his escape but knock off everyone, including his accomplices in crime, who could connect him not only to the Gorky Park murders but to what his real motives were really all about: Destroying a major part of the Russian economy by making himself filthy rich off it. Both William Hurt and newcomer Joanna Pacula as Ankady Renko & Irina Asanova give the film, that in many cases is hard to follow, the zip and tension that it needs to keep its audiences full attention even during the scenes when it gets overly boring. As for Lee Marvin as the mysterious Jack Osborne his weather beaten and wrinkled face, especially in his close-up scenes, looked like a road-map to a graveyard which his hard living and drinking lifestyles lead him into some four years later.