Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Rijndri Load of rubbish!!

Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Melanie Bouvet The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

jrbarrows I can only guess (ha!) that LeCarre' had nothing to do with this film. It's a cartoon. Funny, but horribly directed. LeCarre' should sue, or at least remove his name from anywhere in the "credits". The overacting is a stitch! Especially the U.S. general in charge of the invasion. Yeah, I have to admit it's a great job of turning a serious book into a farce, if that was the intention. But it it wasn't intentional, then it's just a farcical piece of film drivel. Making fun of LeCarre' is just plane rude, insensitive, and insulting. Even though I rated a 1 out of 10, I do have to admit it made me laugh. I just have to pretend that I never read a LeCarre' novel, and don't admire him for being the best (serious) spy genre novelist of all time.

leplatypus Of all the fours great spook writers i know, Le Carré (LC) with Robert Littell are the two who have the best writing skills while the two others (Clancy and Forsyth) are more into stuff and intelligence. In other words, LC's work focuses about people and the way the human condition can twist the true and real facts. It was already the case with the « Russia House » in which « falcons » were unable to understand reality as it didn't fit their conviction. Here, it's about the opposite effect: some expensive lies made by an cupid asset become hot stuff as they help the « falcons». At the end, LC depicts a acid, paranoid world when human intelligence is a chess-game played by sharks and arbitrated by incompetent but dangerous authorities ! The production here is really top-quality : having Borman as director was giving the keys to a real adventurer who proved his skills in locations. Brosnan was the perfect choice to play this cynical agent. Rush stunned me by his ability to act like a tailor and thus the opening focusing on his skills was a good change from the ultra flashy ones of today. In addition, you have also got a glamorous Jamie Lee, a convincing Leonor and the famous Harry Potter (recognized him at his first scene but needed also the credits to be sure !). Like LC's novels, the pace is a bit slow sometimes but this movie is telling more truth about lies than other propaganda productions that tells lies about truth !

Boba_Fett1138 It's weird, I don't even know what made me want to watch this movie in the first place. Perhaps it was its interesting cast list or the fact I'm often interest in spy thriller but anyway, in the end this just wasn't a very satisfying. It's not one that is horrible or even bad but it really isn't a very exciting or engaging movie to watch.This is a movie with way too much talking and not even happening. I at least expected one action or chase sequences in this movie but there is absolutely nothing remotely like that in this movie at all. Of course it's alright for a movie to not feature any action in it and to be one that's all about its dialog and story instead but you still have to somehow manage to present and bring it in an interesting package, which just wasn't the case with this movie.To put it boldly, I just couldn't care less about any of the characters or what was going on with its story. Because of that, this movie just isn't ever a very involving one to watch. It will make you loose interest pretty fast, which makes this movie a bit of a dull one. There are some directors that can get away with telling a story like this in a way this movie does (someone like Michael Mann for instance) but just not a person like John Boorman I'm afraid. Seems to me that this movie would had worked out way better if they made it just a tad bit more entertaining to watch.John Boorman often sound good in potential but the execution is always lacking, even for his most respected and well known movies. No, guess I'm just not a Boorman fan.Can't say that the actors didn't give everything though. They really committed themselves to this project, as if it was something Oscar worthy. Geoffrey Rush was especially great and with Jamie Lee Curtis, Brendan Gleeson and Catherine McCormack the movie also has a really solid supporting cast. It was a bit weird seeing Pierce Brosnan in a spy role, since at the time he was still playing James Bond but he gives some nice different twists to his characters in this movie, that help to make him a different one, though on paper it still really was a James Bond type of character, without the gadgets.Nothing about this movie is horrible but there is also absolutely nothing that makes this a great or special watch.6/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

buiger 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)...