Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses
1994
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Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Cast: Mato Valtonen, Sakke Järvenpää, Matti Pellonpää, Kari Väänänen, André Wilms, Nicky Tesco, Twist-Twist Erkinharju, Ben Granfelt, Jore Marjaranta, Mauri Sumén
After Mexican tequila wipes out most of the Leningrad Cowboys, the remaining band members run into Moses, the band's duplicitous former manager reborn as a man of God, and decide to return to Europe. Aki Kaurismäki's Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989) was a likeable one-joke comedy that outstayed its welcome. The sequel is another 15 minutes longer, and one of the most boring films ever made. In the original, the plotless road trip took the band through the United States, now they drive back home to Russia through France, Germany, Czech Republic, and Poland. The performances are abysmal, the humour is cringey and awkwardly unfunny, and the musical numbers are awful.
