Browser’s Magnificent Seven

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A DYNAMIC thriller about the criminal underworld of the Russian mafia in London. Canadian director David Cronenberg in 2007 did for expat Russkies what Martin Scorsese did for the equally odious Sicillian gangsters of New York. This entertaining tosh glamorises men of violence.

A London midwife Anna Khitrova, played by Naomi Watts, reads the diary of a Russian teenage prostitute who died in childbirth and seeks to trace the baby’s family. She stumbles across the Russkie underworld and a web of people traffickers. Anna runs foul of the mafia’s perverted loyalties, but finds an unlikely protector in exiled Russian chauffeur Nikolai.

Viggo Mortensen dominates this movie as Nikolai Luzhin, a wry tough guy, well down the mafia pecking order. His boss, played by Armin Mueller-Stahl, jovially runs a family restaurant as a front for criminal activities.

Steve Knight’s blood-spattered script shows a mean side of a capital most of us have happily never seen. Mortensen’s fight scene in a Turkish bath house with would be assassins makes most gangster confrontations look like pillow fights.

Time Out said: “An often brutal dip into the hellish demi-mondes lurking behind bouncer-guarded London doorways. Inconceivable without Mortensen’s extraordinary performance.”

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