Best movie of this year hands down!

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Director: Anton Corbijin Screenplay: Andrew Bovell Based on a most wanted man by John Le Carre Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, William Dafoe, Robin Wright and Grigoriy Dobrygin Plot: when a half-Chechen, half-Russian turns up illegally in Hamburg it puts the German and American Governments on full attack. Review: I found this movie interesting because it looks at illegal immigration from America's War on Terror perspective. The direction and screenplay are both really. Both the casting and acting are really good also, especially by Philip Seymour Hoffman in his vary last performance. All in all I would give this five out of a possible five stars.

Beyond the sentiment for Philip Seymour Hoffman, this is a movie that should not have allowed its actors to use accents they cannot replicate.Rachel McAdams attempted accent was "especially terrible" as it switched from english, to American, to some kind of eastern European, to even a Hebrew accent. Even PSH's accent switched around constantly throughout the movie. It was unbearably fake and incredibly hard to watch and take the actors seriously.I shut it off halfway through. the Fakeness was overwhelming.

Maybe A Most Wanted Man is not the best film, or even a screen adaptation of the novel. A Most Wanted Man is certainly not the best novel by John le Carré, the writer whose inspiration was the culmination of the Cold War, from which emerged his most important works, spy thrillers generally without murders and chase, especially without "bondian" superhuman skills and the spectacular "gadgets", imbued with moral dilemmas. Film A Most Wanted Man is something that we might call film by Phillip Seymour Hoffman, and difficult to watch from a different point of view. A Most Wanted Man is not shining example of a spy novel, nor Corbijn is an example of a great filmmaker. His strengths are visual component and, as it turns out, working with the actors. Where images are concerned, it resembles a world that is dying, or even transformed into something completely different, where old rules do not apply and where everything lays on improvisation or arrogance. It is very nice to see in colors ranging from brown to rusty ice blue tones.

This spy movie drew me in from the start by the masterful performance of Philip Seymour Hoffman. The dry wit, the curiously soft German accent, and the image of the workaday spy operating in a cloak and dagger world made Hoffman's character very sympathetic. We find him in the city of Hamburg, a gritty setting with a Muslim population that would draw attention from the security world with its connection to 9/11. We get a sense of how the world has changed since 2001 with security forces sniffing for suspects in a universe where terrorism stalks daily life. In this case, the link is through a Chechen seeking asylum from a ruthless Russian regime and an Islam charity operative who could be funnelling funds to terrorists. In this world there is infighting between Americans and Germans and the governments that tolerate spy networks for the sake of public safety but don't want anyone to know about them. The dialogue is often in hushed tones and the noirish atmosphere is enhanced by dark neighbourhoods near busy port locations. Hoffman works with Willem Dafoe, playing a banker and Rachel McAdams as a lawyer assisting asylum seekers who run up against the authorities. A very riveting drama is played out among the leading characters in a back alley setting that is an unseen war zone in our post 9/11 world.