Bert Kreischer faces a familial crisis and the arrival of his estranged father when the ghost of his booze-soaked past arrives: a murderous mobster hellbent on kidnapping Bert back to the motherland to atone for his crimes. Together, he and his father must retrace the steps of his younger self in the midst of a war between a sociopathic crime family while they attempt to find common ground.
Acting
Mark Hamill committing to this nonsense is everything.
Stunts
Kreischer actually doing his own absurd stunts.
Writing
The Machine origin story is somehow real.
Director
Peter Atencio
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This entire film is based on Kreischer's true viral story about accidentally joining the Russian mob in college. He really is 'The Machine.'
The film leans hard into post-Soviet mob movie tropes while gently mocking American cluelessness about Eastern Europe—intentionally or not.
US
