Pu-239 (2006)

Best movie of this year hands down!

Very Cool!!!

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Dark and grim. Excellent performances. I didn't know any of the actors, so that made the experience more intense. They were to me the real characters of a very dismal film, almost as if I was watching a documentary. I think the only two redeemable characters are the husband and wife --with their little boy-- while all the rest of the coterie are as awful as they come. What horrible people! and the richer they were the more disgusting and vulgar they seemed to be! I think nobody accomplishes anything in this story, and if some of them did before we get to know them, living in supernatural riches and comfort --easy money-- it didn't last too long... Interesting movie, although I don't really get the point of watching the ups and downs of such depressing characters. One thing bothered me throughout the whole film: Why do they insist --English spoken films-- in having "foreigners" speaking English (as if it was the native tongue) with an accent of the real "native" language (whichever country they represent in a movie)??That makes the whole movie phony, because no "native" of any country speaks his mother tongue with an accent. Elemental Watson.

Russia in the early 1990's was a scary place, maybe even scarier than during communism. The whole system broke down completely, and the ruthless thugs ran the country without any scruples. This is a story about a decent man exposed to lethal dose of radiation, who doesn't have anybody to turn to in his predicament. So in order to provide some future for his family, he steals 100 grams of plutonium to sell on a black market. Needless to say nothing goes as planned. This is a hard and harsh portrayal of Russia under Boris Yeltcin( the sweetheart of the West). His corrupt regime enabled his cronies to still Russia blind. Excellent acting in-spite of exaggerating accents. Another winner from HBO.

It fills my heart to see such great drama... especially of man that steals for his own family's safety and wealth...and there's another guy that has to pay back the dept of his stupidity to a big gangster pimp... but in all that drama there was a comic glitch in it when the thugs of that Indian guy...started inhaling plutonium because they where thinking it was cocaine...I can't believe this was made in Romania...Well all the structures look kind of Romanian but the skyscrapers that where borrowed from Moscow where fake because Bucharest doesn't have skyscrapers...This Movie should have won some awards if you ask me...

I also came across this movie as I channel surfed. Didn't even know the name of it, but was fascinated by it's authenticity, being filmed behind the former Iron Curtain.Russia has always been a paradox, in many ways a 3rd world nation, yet a military superpower. The themes it dealt with, the worthlessness of the individual, the carelessness of dealing with unbelievably dangerous substances in such an offhand way, the ass-covering behavior of bureaucrats, the stupidity of the Russian mafia, all are classic and well developed in the film. All are characteristic of Russia, yet this story could have happened anywhere. Really scares you to think that, given the bell curve of any group of humans, the nuclear genie is actually in the hands of such oafs.Worth watching, worth talking and thinking about.