Red Serpent

Red Serpent is a 2003 Russian-German crime thriller directed by Gino Tanasescu.

Plot
Steve Nichols comes to Moscow to conclude a contract. Unbeknownst to Steve, he has to become a front for transporting drugs supplied by a local gangster nicknamed Red Serpent. And his personal consent is just a technical matter.

The only hope for the trapped businessman is the former KGB officer Sergei Popov, who has old scores with the Serpent.

Cast

 * Michael Pare as Steve Nichols
 * Roy Scheider as Hassan (Red Serpent)
 * Oleg Taktarov as Sergey Popov
 * Alexander Nevsky as Peter
 * John Mastando as Dylan Navarre
 * Irina Apeksimova as Sasha
 * Yuriy Dumchev as Shifty
 * Gary Kasper as Ivan Kutuza
 * Andris Lielais as Medvedev
 * Vladimir Zaitsev as Gurov
 * Egor Pazenko as Boris

Critical response
Russian film critic Valery Kichin considered the film unspectacular and boring, giving it a rating of 1 out of 10.

BadComedian called the Tanasescu film "stupidity, idiocy and nonsense".

Reviewer Andrey Volkov (Postcriticism.ru) named only the performance of some actors as a plus, but in general he described the film as far from professional cinema.