Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Little Nikita


Actors: River Phoenix, Sidney Poitier, Richard Jenkins, Caroline Kava, Richard Bradford, Richard Lynch
Rating: 3 out of 10, Another bad 80s flick about a deep cover Russian family living the American dream in suburban San Diego. Basically the same premise as The Americans and you can see why it took so long after this fiasco for Hollywood to return to it. This is one of the movies that surprises you because the cast is top notch but cannot salvage it. Phoenix displays the awesome potential that was sadly lost in his passing but there were massive holes in the plot that cannot be forgiven, even for a bad movie. Poitier must be embarrassed to have this film on his sterling resume as he plays an awkward FBI agent befriending the son of the Russian agents while two separate assassins are tracking them all down. It was all very Russian and very bad.
MVP: River Phoenix as Jeff, makes you miss him all the more

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