Quickie Review: A Gentleman In Moscow

[Kevin M.]

Set in Soviet Russia, but everybody is incredibly British. 

Kevin M. (RPCV)

[Paul Murray]

Hey, it worked for ancient Rome.

[Kevin M.]

Yeah, it’s very much like the cheesy old Roman epics. Everybody (including the kid) is overacting to the point of distraction. It’s not a bad story, but I can’t tell how good the writing is when Obi Wan Kenobi is constantly gnawing the scenery. 

Kevin M. (RPCV)

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[Dave Sikula]

I enjoyed the first part enough to go back for Part Two, but it suffers from something that irritates the beejeezus out of me in almost anything set in a non-English speaking country: everyone speaks perfect vernacular English, but all the printed matter is in the local language (in this case, Cyrillic Russian). It's like they're saying, "We can read and write Russian, we just can't speak it." (Although I am reminded of someone complaining about a production of Chekhov because the actors didn't speak in Russian accents, like Boris and Natasha).

--Dave Sikula