It's difficult to truly squander an illustrious cast, and yet Child 44 pulls off that not - inconsiderable feat with aplomb, stranding Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Noomi Rapace, Joel Kinnaman, Paddy Considine, Jason Clarke, and Vincent Cassel in a misbegotten adaptation of Tom Rob Smith's novel about a post-WWII
Russian military police officer (Hardy) who finds himself at the center of a serial - killer investigation.