Akwarium

I really wanted to like this movie more but the acting was terrible and screenplay was horrendous.

I loved the storyline, plot, and even the extended scenes highlighting how tedious and even stressfully boring this spy business could have been! This is a serious subject that piqued my interest but the film itself is pretty mediocre.

I am confused as to how others here can call it a "masterpiece." It is a masterpiece in terms of storytelling, subject matter, and perhaps literature (I have not read the book(s)), but the film adaptation felt like 2 hours going on eternity!

It is worth watching but don't buy this for your collection...

It was very good. The story is very engaging and the actors did a very good job. A bit disappointed about the lengths I had to go through to obtain this movie with English subtitles.

The film is based on series of books by Rezun Vladimirh Boghdanovich aka "Victor Suvorov", which described true story and events. I recommend it to watch as a counterweight to action-drama entertainment movies in "James Bond' style -- not to diminish quality of the latter, but to just realize, the actual inventions in real-world spying were even more weird, than the ones of ol' good Flemming. It may be significant, that the materials for the standalone version were also remixed as six episode TV series (atleast in Poland, but I think, this was shown in Germany, Austria and Ukraine broadcasting too). Somebody commented it as "Thriller" -- the most scaring thing is, it is all true...

Do you know what does it stand for "G.R.U."? If NO - look this movie. The scenario of this movie has been based on the book of _real_ GRU guy, Viktor Suvorov (real name - Vladimir Bogdanovich Rezun). Through looking this movie you will met real work of Soviet intelligence, not casual Hollywood trash.

Akwarium is a true story of a Soviet spy operating in Western Europe. An organization he is with is called G.R.U., which is more secret than the K.G.B. Again, the movie is a true story and worth while watching. This is not only an entertaining thriller, but also can be used as educational movie about the Soviet spy agents.