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Evilenko (2004)
  
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Director:
David Grieco |
COUNTRY
Italy |
GENRE
Thriller/Drama |
NORWEGIAN TITLE
Evilenko |
RUNNING
TIME
90
minutes |
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Producer:
Mario Cotone |
Screenwriter:
David Grieco |
Review
Underrated and
underused Malcolm McDowell is very well cast as Andrej Romanovic
Evilenko (real-life Andrej Romanovic Cikatilo) who raped and murdered
some fifty young girls and women around the former Soviet Union in the
1980s. For some reason, this David Grieco film is very interested in
linking his behaviour to the Russian political state at the time. The
connection
might hold some truth, but is given too much focus in Evilenko.
The film
should have gone deeper into the killer's mind instead, but of course,
with the uncertainty and lack of material surrounding the real-life
murderer this story is based upon, it might have been risky business. What we're left with is a fairly interesting (but somewhat stiff) crime
story and a Malcolm McDowell in superb form - had he only been given a
bit more to work with. Kudos to both McDowell and Grieco for the the
former's original final scene in the film.
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