Bert Kreischer faces a familial crisis and the arrival of his estranged father when the ghost of his booze-soaked past arrives: a murderous mobster hellbent on kidnapping Bert back to the motherland to atone for his crimes. Together, he and his father must retrace the steps of his younger self in the midst of a war between a sociopathic crime family while they attempt to find common ground.
Bert Kreischer
Bert Kreischer
Mark Hamill
Albert Kreischer
Jimmy Tatro
Bert Kreischer (young)
Stephanie Kurtzuba
LeeAnn
Nikola Đuričko
Igor
Iva Babić
Idina
Martyn Ford
Sponge
Robert Maaser
Alexei
Jess Gabor
Sasha
Rita Bernard-Shaw
Ashley
Oleg Taktarov
Train Igor
Amelie Child-Villiers
Tatiana
Aleksandar Srećković 'Kubura'
Fedor
Jovan Savić
Irina's Father
Marko Nedeljković
Young Igor
Set Sjöstrand
Vanya
Mercedes De La Cruz
Teacher
Vladimir Gvojić
Train Banditti
Aleksandar Dragutinovic
Train Banditti
Đorđe Simić
Big John
Brian Caspe
Therapist
Ivana Antonijevic
Dog Owner
Miodrag Dragičević
DJ
Milena Predić
Igor's Wife
Andrija Nikčević
Scared Young Man
Tea Wagner
Madison
Dobrila Stojnić
Old Lady Villager
Director
Peter Atencio
Writer
Kevin Biegel
Writer
Scotty Landes
June 1, 2023
5
Nope, this just wasn't for me. We start off watching a pretty unfunny stand up routine from "Bert" (Bert Kreischer) that pretty quickly has an old Russian gent shooting at his telly! So far, I'm in accord with him. Turns out, though, that he's not just annoyed at the act, but that 20-odd years ago this comic robbed him on a train of a family artefact. Bent on retrieving this, he despatches daughter "Irina" (Iva Babic) to track him down and either reclaim his property or bring him to Russia for an unique sort of revenge. Meantime, "Bert" is going through the usual family crises, that have his therapist reaching for the shotgun, when his estranged father "Albert" (Mark Hamill) shows up for his granddaughter's sixteenth birthday. Lots of teenage histrionics see him actually rescued by his European visitors who whisk both of them off for some adventures reliving his earlier tour (as Jimmy Tatro now) drinking and snorting his way around Moscow and becoming the legend that is "The Machine". (Apparently he was going for something more macho, but got the words wrong). Retracing his steps, his train journey etc., we get the gist quickly of the old him being a bit of a thoughtless tit and... By this point I really couldn't care. It's riddled with poor acting and ageing stereotypes that just aren't funny. What was Mark Hamill thinking? Vodka swilling whilst using cocaine straight off a sweaty hooker's back might have been entertaining in the 1980s, but Kreischer just hasn't the skill to hold this together while Babic does her best to exude the menace of Cate Blanchett (India Jones circa 2008), and Tatro just looks like the long lost Jonas brother who has watched a bit too much "Bill & Ted'. People in the cinema did laugh, so it can't have been all bad - but for me this was just puerile and at times almost excruciating to sit through for the almost two hours of my life that I won't get back.