A man whose mission is to investigate a homicide which happens in Moscow's Gorky Park works for the Moscow police. Suddenly, he uncovers the real conspiracy which involves the Moscow city government.
Neither Dennis Potter's screenplay nor the heavyweight cast can raise this adaptation of Martin Cruz Smith's best-selling spy novel above the ordinary.
Gorky Park is well done and unique amid the films of its day. While certainly made with the Cold War as its backdrop, the film never resorts to the Cold War clichés of the time.
Hopelessly dated and morose -- and much is lost from the bestselling novel.
Variety
March 26, 2009
William Hurt is superb as a Moscow militia detective caught between his desires to be simply a good cop and the unfathomable motives of the secret Soviet government, all complicated by an unexpected love for Joanna Pacula.
