Child 44
Based on the first of a trilogy by Tom Rob Smith and set in the Stalin era of the Soviet Union. During Stalin';;;s rule of the Soviet Union in the early 1950s, disgraced Ministry of State Security Agent Leo Demidov uncovers a strange and brutal series of child murders by a serial killer who everyone claims does not exist because it is Soviet doctrine that it is capitalism, not communism which creates serial killers. The state would not hear of the existence of a child murderer let alone a serial killer. He gets demoted and exiled but decides, with just the help of his wife, to continue pursuing the case.
28 September 1978, Prague, Czechoslovakia [now in Czech Republic]
8 May 1979, Nové Mesto na Morave, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
14 July 1946, Prague, Csehslovakia [now Czech Republic]
8 February 1944, Prague, Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia
12 February 1983, London, England, UK
22 December 1979, Ústí nad Labem, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
22 May 1973, Rødovre, Denmark
1964, Rhosllannerchrugog, Wales, UK
21 September 1969, Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR
23 November 1966, Paris, France
22 May 1977, Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
2 May 1969, Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
21 November 1969
22 April 1979, Brno, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
1961, Manchester, England, UK
1 April 1959, Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
5 September 1974, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK
18 November 1975, Lidice, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
18 September 1967, Cuckfield, Sussex, England, UK
21 March 1958, New Cross, London, England, UK
28 December 1979, Hudiksvall, Gävleborgs län, Sweden
April 02, 2016
Hardy and Rapace provide a solid emotional anchor as a couple brought together by fear and tightened by survival instinct.
April 18, 2015
Given these actors and the ravishing decrepitude of the locations and costumes and the lustrous cinematography of Oliver Wood, I found it more than watchable the whole way through.
April 16, 2015
It's as tedious as a bottomless bowl of borscht.
March 07, 2016
Anchored by two strong lead performances, this film is nothing like the serial killer thriller the trailer suggests. In fact, it is nothing like what you think you are going to get.
May 11, 2017
Child 44 is bland in every aspect, which is a shame as the source novel could have been turned into an exciting movie if it had the right directorial hands to guide it (as well as a more eye catching title, Child 44 sounds pretty boring in name alone).
April 19, 2015
The movie hints at a riveting story but is incapable of delivering it.
April 17, 2015
Equally bloated and scatterbrained.
May 31, 2016
Everyone speaks in pidgin English with thick Russian accents, which reduces the flick to an unintentional farce.
October 16, 2015
Once in a while comes that star-studded film to remind that even the best assemblage of thespians isn't enough to save the most underwhelming of films.
April 16, 2015
[An] unrelentingly grim, plodding, and close-to-incoherent adaptation of Tom Rob Smith's best-selling mystery.
December 02, 2015
It's rare that a movie more than two hours long is criticized for being too short, but there's just so much crammed in, and the speedy clip of events doesn't permit the audience to gain a deep empathy for anyone involved.
April 16, 2015
"Child 44" is involving despite itself.
