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Rating: 4.6/10 by 867 users

Police Academy: Mission to Moscow (1994)

The Russians seek help in dealing with the Mafia from the veterans of the Police Academy. They head off to Moscow, in order to find evidence against Konstantin Konali, who marketed a computer game that everyone in the world is playing.

Directing:
  • Alan Metter
  • Alex Hapsas
  • Sheila Wilson
  • Alexander Yurchikov
  • Alexander Zelenkov
Writing:
  • Randolph Davis
  • Michele S. Chodos
  • Pat Proft
  • Neal Israel
Stars:
Release Date: Thu, Jun 09, 1994

Rating: 4.6/10 by 867 users

Alternative Title:
Police Academy 7: Operation Scotland Yard - US
Police Academy 7: Mission to Moscow - US
Polisskolan 7 - uppdrag i Moskva - SE
Polisskolan 7 - FI
Poliisiopisto - Moskovan keikka - FI
Polisskolan 7: Uppdrag i Moskva - SE
Police Academy 7 - US
Police Academy 7 - Mission à Moscou - FR
警察学院 7:莫斯科任务 - CN
Scuola di polizia 7: Missione a Mosca - IT
Policejní akademie 7: Moskevská mise - CZ
Academia de Polícia 7: Missão em Moscovo - PT
玩转莫斯科 - CN

Country:
Russia
United States of America
Language:
English
Runtime: 01 hour 23 minutes
Budget: $10,000,000
Revenue: $126,247

Plot Keyword: video game, mafia, police academy, moscow, russia, commandant

George Gaynes
Commandant Lassard
David Graf
Tackleberry
G.W. Bailey
Captain Harris
Christopher Lee
Commandant Rakov
Ron Perlman
Konstantine Konali
Gregg Berger
Lieutenant Talinsky
Pamela Guest
Anchor Person
Stuart Nisbet
Anchor Person
David St. James
News Director
Robert Iannaccone
Training Sergeant
Olga Anokhina
Russian Mother
Oleg Groonevitch
Russian Police Cadet
Igor Semenkov
Russian Police Cadet
Andrei Vishnyakov
Russian Police Cadet
Mariya Vinogradova
Old Lady in Gorky Park
Andrey Annenskiy
Little Russian Boy with Bike
Julius LeFlore
Piano Player
Amanda LeFlore
Buxom Assistant
Michael Bolotin
Rakov's Guard
Andrei Bolotin
Rakov's Guard
Vladimir Goryushin
Russian Father
Nastia Gorushina
Russian Daughter
Pavel Ostroukhov
Priest in Cemetery
Natalya Pozdnyakova
Katrina's Replacement Translator
Yakov Dyrda
Mafia Hood
Zemskovi
Circus Acrobat
Elena Vorobieva
Circus Rope-Climber
Michel Clerte
BMX Championship Bike Team
Michel Lavandet
BMX Championship Bike Team
Olivier Prosper
BMX Championship Bike Team
Olivier Renard
BMX Championship Bike Team
Svetlana
Prima Ballerina

Potential Kermode

**See a boiled egg fly through the air from one mans mouth to another mans mouth and then back again - all in Technicolor!** Comedy - _negligible_. Interest factor - negligible. Original cast members - negligible. Audiences watching it in the theatres in 1994 - negligible. Box office gross - negligible. Farting noises - _absolutely_. Cartoon sound effects - absolutely. Disinterested/embarrassed performances - absolutely. Enthusiastic Russian actors who believe they are performing in a masterpiece - absolutely. After watching this movie I had forgotten how to smile. I saw somebody else laughing and I had to ask them what they were doing with their face and what the _unusual sound_ meant.

Filipe Manuel Neto

**An unnecessary film.** Sometimes it seems producers have a hard time understanding when a movie shouldn't be made. The “Police Academy” franchise should have ended in the sixth film, and even then it would be ending up pretty worn out. This film, made several years later, was an effort that was simply needless and certainly leaves no one with good memories. After seeing the movie, I was really sorry that the franchise ended with such a bad movie. It was something that, for me, should have been avoided. “Police Academy” was one of the most interesting and successful comic franchises of the 80s, and there are still many people who have fond memories of these films today. I myself, as a child, saw them several times on television. The script is perfectly idiotic and a simple excuse to take some of the characters in the film to post-Soviet Russia, where they must help the local police to fight a big mobster who is turning into an oligarch (one of many that, as we know, emerged from the ashes of the communist regime, fat with shady deals in which the Russian people ended up losing). It's an unhappy, poor script made by incapable people. Humor, on the other hand, is completely absent. I don't laugh for a single minute. The cast, which until now had been relatively stable (with the absence of several actors starting from the fourth film), had completely collapsed, and most actors refused to be part of this project. George Gaynes is back, but his character, Commander Lassard, looks simply like an old man with Alzheimer's (with all due respect to anyone suffering from this serious illness, don't get me wrong). Gaynes is not funny, and his performance here is disgraceful. Michael Winslow also tries to make some of the jokes he's already used to us, taking advantage of his vocal skills... but he doesn't have the material or time and what he does has no freshness or novelty. Sir Christopher Lee makes a brief appearance in the film, and as far as I can understand, he did so as a favor to the producer. Friendship is a beautiful thing, and also professional courtesy, but I bet Lee won't want to be remembered for this movie (and he certainly won't, he's done better things, as we know). Who ends up standing out in some way is Ron Perlman. The actor, who we know for other, much more dignified works, tried to be funny and give some dignity to his character. Meritorious, respectable, but unworthy of the actor he is. The rest of the cast is not worth mentioning. Are there any redeeming qualities in this film? To be honest, I don't think so..., but even so, I feel obliged to make a small caveat: I liked the fact that they did a lot of the filming in the real city of Moscow and that they used real Russian extras and Russian speakers. This gives the film a certain authenticity that deserves to be highlighted, and which is most lacking nowadays, where any piece of green or blue screen replaces a real set and saves a few dollars on the production budget. However, it must have taken courage and some dose of madness to try to make a film in the midst of the political and military upheavals Russia was experiencing in those years.


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