The Machine

The Machine (2023) is an action comedy you can watch online on iFILM — directed by Peter Atencio and starring stand-up comedian Bert Kreischer alongside Mark Hamill as his deadpan father. The film is based on Kreischer's real-life story about a booze-fueled train ride through Russia that became one of the most retold bits in American comedy.

Twenty years after that trip, the Russian mob shows up at Bert's door. He robbed a train with them — by accident, very drunk — and now they want him back to settle the account. Bert and his father fly to Russia together, which means both a mob war and a long-overdue conversation about their relationship. Nikola Đuričko and Oleg Taktarov make the antagonists feel genuinely threatening enough to give the comedy somewhere to push against.

Hamill's dry restraint works as the perfect foil to Kreischer's unhinged chaos. The film isn't subtle — it doesn't try to be — but the father-son dynamic gives it more emotional ballast than the premise suggests. Stream The Machine (2023) online on iFILM.