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Border Blues

2003, Movie, R, 86 mins

Border Blues: Review

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Aimed at both the US and Russian markets, this international co-production released direct-to-video in America jams in car chases and fisticuffs but cannot make its subplots gel. Big-shot Moscow police detective Somov (Rodion Nahapetov) retires to pursue a new life in Los Angeles. Immediately, he regrets leaving behind his adult children for a pipe dream about being a consultant to the LAPD. In a blow to his ego, the California coppers refuse to waive visa rules about imported employment and advise Somov to improve his English. Instead of apprehending felons, Somov winds up schlepping supplies for a restaurateur, Victor Kim (Sergey Tsoi). South of the border, another Russian immigrant named Kiriwa (Ekaterina Redmikova) tries to hook up with her fugitive husband. Unlike Somov's abandoned relatives, who played by the rules in the USSR, Kiriwa and her five-year-old daughter depend on a trafficker named Larry (Eric Roberts) to slip them illegally into America. Having recently lost his daughter through divorce, Larry becomes obsessively attached to Kiriwa and her offspring; overnight, he regards the duo as a ready-made family. Somov, on assignment for Kim in Tijuana, runs into his countrywoman, who's now being held against her will. Could Larry also be connected to the terrorism directed against drug company Relco Pharmaceuticals? The task force of LAPD police chief March (Gary Busey), stymied by lack of evidence, has been seeking the terrorist's the motivation. Now Somov, despite lacking jurisdiction, must defuse the hostage situation. The writer-director-producer-star, Nahapetov, never coherently switches between his two sets of characters, the American task force fighting crime in L.A. and the Russian lone wolf rescuing captives in Mexico. Busey and Roberts burn off enough testosterone to keep their fans hopped up, but Nahapetov lacks star quality. leave a comment --Robert Pardi
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