The November Man
The November Man
R | 27 August 2014 (USA)
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An ex-CIA operative is brought back in on a very personal mission and finds himself pitted against his former pupil in a deadly game involving high level CIA officials and the Russian president-elect.

Reviews
Ameriatch One of the best films i have seen
Tockinit not horrible nor great
ShangLuda Admirable film.
filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
devicecontext-85955 I understand that this movie targets English-speaking audience behind the proverbial iron curtain. Still a female aid to prospect Russian president driving Niva SUV is something hard to believe. In fact this is pretty lame. And I am not discussing her fake boobs on top of her unbelievably horrible Russian. Guys, spend a few bucks and hire a decent voice-over, Brighton New York perhaps? As a consolation, a few counter-part Russian movies showing Americans I tried to watch, they are way more lame than this one.Russian agent-murderess, her outstanding hooter immediately and obviously reveals her evil nature. Other than that, action, suspense and everything else required for creating a spy story are all present. Still too much of a caricature. Watch The Bourne Supremacy instead.
inspectors71 I've seen this movie before. To be more accurate, I've seen lots of spy stories, and The November Man is nothing original, but the pacing and the plot twists make for a dandy couple hours of thrills and spills.The viewer, so often the victim of clichéd crap in the theater or on TV, can rest assured that Roger Donaldson, who has made everything from The Bounty to the awful remake of Peckinpah's The Getaway, from gory science fiction (Species) to historical fiction (Thirteen Days), will deliver a journeyman effort.Even if there are no major push-backs against the Hollywood cliché machine.There is a moment in the movie that Pierce Brosnan's character warns his protégé that he can either be "a human or a taker of human life," he can't be both. This is the sort of extra sprinkle of intelligence that makes The November Man a cut above. And the cut that happens right after that comment is enough to make the viewer gasp with horror.I watched The November Man last night, and I found myself not wanting to do chores (easy ones at that) because I wanted to immerse myself in the story.For the life of me, I can't think of a better recommendation than that. The next time USA Network shows it, sit down, put the dishes and the laundry off for awhile, and enjoy a good, solid spy story.And don't pay for it! I didn't see TNM uncut, but I don't think I missed anything critical from the edited-for-television version.
kooldude-4141 I decided to watch this movie not knowing it was based on a novel, haven't read the novel either so don't know if it did justice to the film or not.Coming to the film,was expecting a good movie since it casts Pierce Brosnan as a an American spy.The beginning of the movie seemed interesting, have always liked Pierce Brosnan in the role of a spy. Devereaux (Pirce Brosnan) was a character i couldn't understand, sometimes he acts just like he should, an intelligent spy with amazing skills, can handle tough situation easily, and then sometimes he acts just the opposite making naive mistakes. The story was confusing with lots of loopholes. So in the movie, CIA roams freely in Russia and there are no police. It felt like it was an American territory where Russian police or intelligence had no hold. You can enter a hotel and easily get to the upcoming president of Russia, CIA can do whatever it wants and the world would believe a Chechnyan girl who was physically abused by the antagonist via a email and lastly the Americans would want this girl who had proof even its agents had a hand in starting a war.My score - at best 5.5 The soundtrack was nothing spectacular.
alindsay-al I seem to watch allot of action films these days and allot of them are very similar and this includes the November man. The premise of the film sees an ex agent sent to rescue an agent until he gets mixed up in a conspiracy involving the CIA and the Russian government. Now u am a big fan of pierce brosnan even if he is in a bad film he is great and he totally owns thus film. He was an awesome action star but was also dark and tough and you see his character develop and he was a really interesting flawed action star. Luke bracey did a decent job as his former protégé and you really felt the conflict between the two of them and I did buy it. The former bond girl in this film who's name I cannot spell was also really good in this film. She was a really interesting character and she was a damaged character that was more then just an attractive girl to look at. The villains however, were just boring and cliché and didn't have anything of substance to them. The story is okay, I really liked the flashbacks and depth given to some of the characters. But, there are some pointless things in this film and the overall plot was pretty weak and boring. The script is not great, the dialogue is pretty poor but brosnan really makes it work and sometimes you forget about it. The style is a mixed bag, there are some pretty decent action scenes with some great sounding hits. However, they overuse slow motion allot and it doesn't help the action scenes at all. Overall the November man is enjoyable but it doesn't really consist on too many unique ideas.