Don't Believe the Hype

Amateur movie with Big budget

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

Successful in some Respects, Not so much in others, this Dark Satire on the Genre has Pierce Brosnan Showcasing a James Bond like British Spy who has Lost His Grace. The Name isn't "Bond", it's Osnard.Nothing about this MI6 Reject is Suave, Cool, or Charming in Any Way. He Bullies His way around Panama like a Rabid Dog that has No More Instincts. The Movie has Varying Tones of Violence and Sex, most are Lurid and Repulsive.The Script was Written by Acclaimed Spy Novelist John Le Carre from His Book. The Director is the Inconsistent John Boorman. The Film is Interesting and can Intrigue and Amuse if You let it, but some May Find it "in your face" and Anything but Subtle. It Works and then, it Doesn't. So the Overall Effectis Wanting but those Looking for something a bit Different in the Spy Genre will most Likely Enjoy its Edge and Forgive some Clumsiness. Worth a Watch to See Brosnan Riff On His James Bond Persona and there are Enough "out there" Scenes to Capture the Anti-Hollywood Cultists. But Mainstream Moviegoers and those Looking for more of the Same will Probably Not Appreciate the Messy Message in this Very Darkly Humored Display.

An old school, dialogue driven spy thriller set in the far away land of Panama. Even the film techniques are old school (the Thames view in the beginning, editing!). It all feels very 70s (and it isn't necessarly a bad thing). If you enjoyed Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy with Alec Guiness, you should give it a try. The pace is much faster though and the atmosphere less dense. Brosnan as a cynical manipulator is quite believable. G. Rush as Harry the Tailor feels overdone at times but it's all part of the 70s movie convention. For more Bond like, action filled, black white characters spy movies look elsewhere. Set your expectations right and you will enjoy this one.

Very good, intelligent, funny and entertaining movie.Finally a screenplay worthy of being called that, some good dialog and excellent acting (both Rush as well as surprisingly, Brosnan). Brosnan is much more comfortable in this role than he ever was with James Bond. Here he is believable, charming and evil at the same time... On the downside, even though I am a big fan of hers, I have to admit that Jamie Lee Curtis was totally miscast as Rush's engineer wife, she doesn't even come close...It makes you wonder whether something similar to the plot in this film could really happen (or has already happened)...

This movie is intelligent, very intelligent: It is a vacuum of the five senses: It will take you inside/out of Plato's cave and you will not even notice the difference because you are a Marxist: You believe in -MACHINES-! Rewind and undo: Mao is not Marx, for example, and you can read M. Proust in its entirety and still you don't have a clue to the French language: Although sin is Catholic, other religions do accept it, including Pagans such as those of Salem, Massachussets: The little street of Salem, Massachussets where the -FALL OF THE HOUSE USHER- occurred: Marx and Engels had an automatic system hither-fore the lights would turn on or off automatically: Voil'a, that is perfect Marxism, perfect lifted! This movie will bring your -SPACEBALLS- in "accord" with your passes: You will need bring a pass, you know all the references, your act as Buddha is finished and now you will only need -LOVE-!