The movie does command our attention because Hines and Baryshnikov, through their dancing, manage to create very real and living and hurting characters.

A piece of cold war nostalgia to bring you back to the days of dancers as movie stars, impending nuclear war and Yakov Smirnov.

Not a bad movie, but rather overlong, somewhat tedious in parts, and a bit low on entertainment value. Although I hate how the movie kept making excuses for having Russians speak English with each other, it generally managed to avoid such clichés. I quite liked the end.