After pressing the info button on my remote control the onscreen caption read : " Moody visuals , subterranean S&M clubs and Nazis in a stylish and inventive thriller " . It`s not often the info button is accurate describing a film but it outdid itself in artistic license this time . " Moody visuals " means either people walking around in foggy sets in slo mo or vampires climbing up walls of foggy sets in slo mo , not to mention everything being filmed in a sickly yellow hue or sometimes a cold blue sepia in a homage to TRAFFIC though I somehow think this director didn`t deserve an Oscar nomination . You`ll also be disappointed to know that the S&M club is a fog shrouded dance floor where people stand around like dummies , no orgies here guys because it`s set in a commie country . Er can anyone name me a single communist country in Europe ? There are Nazis involved but you don`t really want to know about that , while worst of all the script tries to be clever by including injokes on characters names . Note to screenwriters : If you`re going to be sophisticated try and write a sophisticated script first
Some other things I learned from this movie
1 ) American cops are very welcome in communist countries
2 ) Ethnic minorities are very welcome in communist countries
3 ) Everyone in Eastern Europe speaks American english and have English sounding names
4 ) If you escape from a Nazi death camp and freeze to death your eyelids still flicker hours after death
5 ) Communist countries employ American SWAT teams
6 ) A vampire`s favourite film is THE MATRIX
Some other things I learned from this movie
1 ) American cops are very welcome in communist countries
2 ) Ethnic minorities are very welcome in communist countries
3 ) Everyone in Eastern Europe speaks American english and have English sounding names
4 ) If you escape from a Nazi death camp and freeze to death your eyelids still flicker hours after death
5 ) Communist countries employ American SWAT teams
6 ) A vampire`s favourite film is THE MATRIX