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3.92 AVERAGE
3.92 AVERAGE
Michael Strogoff is not in the "first tier" of Jules Verne novels, and that's a real pity.
It's a strong story, set in Imperial Russia. The Czar (played in my mind by Patrick Stewart) is told rebels are attacking Siberia and his brother the Grand Duke is going to be killed by a spy.
Since the telegraph is down, the Czar sends a courier, Michael Strogoff (played by a younger Liam Neeson or Daniel Craig -- let's go with Channing Tatum) to Irkutsk. Strogoff is a "B.A.M.F" of the highest order and falls in with travelling French and English journalists (played by Jean Dujardin and Martin Freeman) and Nadia (played by Kristen Bell,) a Mini-B.A.M.F. herself. They're all opposed by the Russian villain/spy/traitor (played by Putin himself.)
There's lots of travel by train, boat, horse carriage, and raft, and various people are captured, tortured, and left for dead. There are attacks by vultures and wolves, a terrible storm, gypsy spies, a Tartar Khan, more than one dangerous river crossing, and a river of ice AND a river of fire.
It's a good yarn, but it's impacted a bit by impossible circumstance (the main character keeps bumping into the same dozen people) and a rather pedestrian Victorian-era translation.
Regardless, this story deserves more attention and a good modern translation.
It's a strong story, set in Imperial Russia. The Czar (played in my mind by Patrick Stewart) is told rebels are attacking Siberia and his brother the Grand Duke is going to be killed by a spy.
Since the telegraph is down, the Czar sends a courier, Michael Strogoff (played by a younger Liam Neeson or Daniel Craig -- let's go with Channing Tatum) to Irkutsk. Strogoff is a "B.A.M.F" of the highest order and falls in with travelling French and English journalists (played by Jean Dujardin and Martin Freeman) and Nadia (played by Kristen Bell,) a Mini-B.A.M.F. herself. They're all opposed by the Russian villain/spy/traitor (played by Putin himself.)
There's lots of travel by train, boat, horse carriage, and raft, and various people are captured, tortured, and left for dead. There are attacks by vultures and wolves, a terrible storm, gypsy spies, a Tartar Khan, more than one dangerous river crossing, and a river of ice AND a river of fire.
It's a good yarn, but it's impacted a bit by impossible circumstance (the main character keeps bumping into the same dozen people) and a rather pedestrian Victorian-era translation.
Regardless, this story deserves more attention and a good modern translation.