Red Serpent
Red Serpent is a 2003 Russian-German action adventure film directed by Gino Tanasescu.
Plot
Steve Nichols comes to Moscow to conclude a contract. Unbeknownst to Steve, he has to become a front for transporting drugs supplied by a local gangster nicknamed Red Serpent. And his personal consent is just a technical matter.The only hope for the trapped businessman is the former KGB officer Sergei Popov, who has old scores with the Serpent.
Cast
- Michael Pare as Steve Nichols
- Roy Scheider as Hassan
- Oleg Taktarov as Sergey Popov
- Alexander Nevsky as Peter
- John Mastando as Dylan Navarre
- Irina Apeksimova as Sasha
- Yuriy Dumchev as Shifty
- Gary Kasper as Ivan Kutuza
- Andris Lielais as Medvedev
- Vladimir Zaitsev as Gurov
- Egor Pazenko as Boris
Critical response
Russian film critic Valery Kichin considered the film unspectacular and boring, giving it a rating of 1 out of 10.BadComedian called the Tanasescu film "stupidity, idiocy and nonsense".
Reviewer Andrey Volkov named only the performance of some actors as a plus, but in general he described the film as far from professional cinema.