Strong and Moving!
... View MorePretty Good
... View MoreUnshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.
... View MoreA clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.
... View MoreFell asleep after 1/2 hour. Unlikely opening premise (would YOU go to a excessive party by that guy after knowing him a few minutes?) and zero action. This is supposed to be a thriller? Bah.
... View MoreSometimes you get into a situation without really doing anything. And then you have to ask yourself where to go from there. Something like this happens to Ewan McGregors character. Someone with a past, but also someone with morals. And someone who seems to be struggling with his life, so he may be welcoming whatever gets thrown at him.This is based on a novel which I haven't read, so I can't compare those two. I can tell you that the movie is more than suspenseful enough and it seems very much rooted in reality (of course heightened at certain points of the story). There are many obstacles and you may see a lot of things coming before they happen, but the movie is played very well and is more than decent enough to enjoy
... View MoreAwful movie, painful to watch. Hardly any resemblance to LeCarre's splendid book. In fact, IMO, the only decent movie that's been made from a LeCarre novel was Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy with Alec Guinness. The others were overly violent in a bid to attract the youth audience and insufficiently political.If you think that LeCarre's story is not relevant, may I remind you that at this moment we are very close to engaging in a cold war with Russia again. All it takes is one foolish word from either Trump or Putin and we will be right back where we were 50 years ago.I don't think the world of international spying is kaput. With modern technology, spying is ubiquitous.
... View MoreWhile this very modern film has an easily digestible plot and otherwise interesting characters, it suffers from being overloaded with leftist themes to foist upon the viewer.The white husband has been unfaithful and now suffers from low self esteem while waiting for his wife to appreciate him again. The wife on the other hand is a brilliant, intelligent, successful lawyer; and she's black of course. The movie is careful to inform us early on that she is the real bread winner in the family. When the husband is handed a legal document to read, his wife snatches it away as though he were a child.In typical Hollywood fashion, all the women in this film are strong, smart and level-headed. All the "bad guys" and violent characters are white males.It's a shame I have to give this film a single score, there should be one for it's cinematic qualities and another for it's globalist values.
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