Product Description

Studio: Peace Arch Home Entertain Release Date: 10/16/2007

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15791 in DVD
• Brand: ALLUMINATION HOME ENT.
• Released on: 2007-01-02
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 120 minutes

Features

• Fluke Kelso (Daniel Craig) is a maverick academic, who's in Moscow to attend a conference on the newly opened Soviet Archives. His colleagues sneer at him behind his back for his radical views on the telling of history but Kelso doesn't care. He's his own man. One night he is visited in his hotel room by Papu Rapava (Valery Chernyak), a former NKVD officer, and bodyguard to the secret

Customer Reviews

FROM RUSSIA WITH CRAIG
"Archangel" is a treat for fans of mystery, international intrigue, and the spy genre. Shot in the dead of winter in Russia the film is visually stunning and eye opening to the beauty of the country. Before you watch the film make a big mug of hot chocolate and jump into your "Snuggy" and hunker down in your favorite chair, for I assure you the Russian winter transcends the television screen and will envelop you as you watch the movie.

The story is a complex and dangerous tale involving a race to find the illegitimate son of Stalin. It is a wild idea that somehow seems almost possible and certainly is filled with exciting possibilities as the story unfolds. All involved in this film do their very best to make it work and in the end they succeed.

Daniel Craig is just wonderful in his role as the Dr. Kelso, a bookish expert on Stalin and communist Russia who is drawn into an adventure of a lifetime during a conference in Moscow. Released just a year before "Casino Royale" Mr. Craig shows his range in this early foray into Bond like territory. His performance is as solid to the bone as it is captivating and even at times, moving. He carries the film with ease, and draws another memorable character in his impressive list of credits. .

The only disappointment for me was that "Archangel" being made for British television is not presented in widescreen. If you are a fan of Daniel Craig's you are in for a treat, if you are a fan of adventure, action, and mystery this is a must for your DVD collection

Great action movie.
Archangel is a well written and finely acted action thriller. A lot like a "National Treasure" for adults. Fast paced and with enough real history to make it interesting. With all the plot twists fitted together making it easy to enjoy.

Internesting hisstorical thriller
Very good. I am a tough critic, think most action, thrillers are not believable. This is.

The Plot centers on the cult of Stalin - as many Russians long for the power and glory of the USSR when Stalin ruled and yet he left behind no male heir... or did he?

Quite good, well written, good acting, also helps that the people who made this movie have some knowledge of history... not typical idiot Hollywood Americans who have no clue who people like Beria were, what they did.