RUSSIAN ROULETTE
Directed by LOU LOMBARDO
Screenplay by TOM ARDIES, STANLEY MANN and ARNOLD MARGOLIN
There is nothing much new in the dirty game of spying, so innovation is not the strongest suit of Russian Roulette. Predictable as it is in plot, however, the movie has an array of disfranchised, quirky characters and an eye for certain dank dead ends of human endeavor that give it a disconcerting, fresh quality.
Director Lou Lombardo, making his first feature, is a former film editor who cut The Wild Bunch and a great many of Robert Altman's movies. Like...