Back in the states, Masha expected a nice American home with a bedroom all her own. No phone calls were made to his ex-wife or to his biological daughter. What she didn't know was the adoption agency failed to properly check her new father's background. But nothing could have been farther from the truth. Mancuso seemed like her knight in shining armor. He visited Masha several times at the orphanage, took her to nice dinners, and bought her candy. After months of waiting, Mancuso traveled to Russia to meet his new daughter. He contacted a New Jersey adoption agency requesting information on 5-year-old Caucasian girls, and chose Masha from a videotape. Meanwhile, 41-year-old Matthew Mancuso, a divorced father in Pennsylvania, was looking for a little girl to adopt. Soon after recovering from her traumatic ordeal, Masha was sent to an orphanage where she prayed that a good family would come to rescue her. Her own mother tried to kill her when she was only 4 years old by stabbing her in the back of the neck with a kitchen knife. She was born in southern Russia to an alcoholic mother and a father she never knew. It's the only way to tolerate it.At 13 years old, Masha has already survived the unthinkable.
Thus, if you are an aspiring film maker, watch this with the sound off. The only redeeming part of this movie, as I mentioned, is the cinematography. Malcovich's acting is an over the top campy goof, but the other performances are so weak, especially Kolya's the young lead, that Malcovich's thespian romp seems Olivierarian in comparison. However, this particular story is ludicrous, inexplicable, and simply makes no sense. This subject matter, when focusing on the transformation of the USSR to the current 15 republics, provides fodder for great movie making. The plot is trite and there is nothing fresh or revealing in this "comic book tale" of organized ethnic crime in Russia. His performance was no "stretch" and Malcovich's abilities as an actor are not on display in Deadly Code or whatever name this ersatz piece of filming wants to use. How John Malcovich took on this role must be a fascinating and convoluted story. It's too bad the cinematographer was not involved in a project that included a competent director and production team. While I appreciate the technical skill of the cinematography, the dialogue, character development, and editing must have been created through an alcoholic haze fueled by bad potato Vodka.
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