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Tycoon
Mixed or average reviews
Based on 17 critic reviews
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Based on 6 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Foreign
Written by:
Aleksandr Borodyansky
Pavel Lungin
Yuli Dubov (also novel Bolshaya pajka)
Directed by: Pavel Lungin
Release Date:
Theatrical: June 13, 2003
DVD: June 22, 2004
Running Time: 123 minutes, Color
Origin: France / Germany / Russia
Language(s): Russian (with English subtitles)
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring Vladimir Mashkov, Mariya Mironova, Levani Outchaneichvili, Aleksandr Baluyev, Andrei Krasko, Marat Basharov, Mikhail Vasserbaum, and Sergei Yushkevich
A true story based on the life of Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, Tycoon shows how one man can help throw a country's entire life in turmoil. (New Yorker Films)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
This is a meaty, well-crafted thriller that absorbs and disturbs you from first frame to last.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
With more than a passing nod to the Hollywood mob movie, Pavel Lounguine ("Luna Park") crafts this superb post-Soviet "Godfather" movie loosely based on the exploits of bad boy billionaire Boris Berezovsky.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Lounguine tells the story with more discipline than you'll find in his earlier films, painting a crowded portrait of a society moving toward a future it can neither confidently predict nor look forward to with anything but nervous anticipation.
Read Full Review >Variety Deborah Young
A savvy, fast-paced political thriller dealing with the meteoric rise and fall of a new Russian businessman.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
The flashback structure drains the story of momentum, but Mashkov and Uchaineshvili portray the reptilian glamour of cultured thugs with frightening intensity.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
In the end Tycoon above all evokes a melancholy awareness of the seemingly eternal exploitation and impoverishment of the Russian people.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Like "The Godfather," it shows him (Makovski) as a crook with certain standards, surrounded by rats with none.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Damon Smith
Despite its ambitious depiction of post-Soviet economic woes, Tycoon is an uneven political thriller that suffers mostly from a highly convoluted story line.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
For all its energy and fine acting, Tycoon has a frustrating lack of narrative coherence.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle G. Allen Johnson
Although Lounguine has a lot to say about Russia's struggle in its transition to global capitalism, his film is strangely uninvolving, lacking dramatic sweep.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Noel Murray
While the players are circling and silently sizing each other up, the audience may find itself straining to look around them, to see the history they're blocking.
Read Full Review >The New Republic Stanley Kauffmann
We become so distracted by the jigsaw effect that soon we are more concerned with the assemblage itself than with what it is about.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Scott Foundas
Lounguine’s biopic is chilly and convoluted, too eventful to be boring, but never taking the time to immerse us emotionally in Makovski's world.
Read Full Review >New York Post V.A. Musetto
Wait for the video, then fast-forward through every scene except the ones featuring Maria Mironova as a cheating wife.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Michael Atkinson
Though a relatively sober essay on criminal organization, Tycoon is also thoroughly pulpy -- that is, crass, unimaginative, corner-cutting, and simplistic, with the visual vocabulary of daytime soap.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
The movie covers too much ground with too little detail. It manages to be convoluted, complicated, incomprehensible and maddeningly thin all at the same time.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 8.3 (out of 10) based on 6 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Thomas P. gave it a 10:
One of the best ever!
Johan S. gave it an 8:
Interesting.
Chad S. gave it a 3:
A foreign or American independent film can suck like the latest Hollywood lobotomy job, and "Tycoon" is the proof. Plato isn't a very compelling screen subject. "Tycoon" feels like a mob film in the tradition of "The Godfather" but there's not a whole lot of violence. Plato's not a monster. He's too nice. A benign ogliarch is only half the problem. The constant shifts in the timeline will drive you batty. The story isn't incoherent, but you stop caring. Because the filmmaker tries to cover so much ground, the whole enterprise feels shallow like a made-for-television movie.
