Tinker Tailor Soldier
Spy (2011)
Directed by Tomas
Alfredson this film based on the novel of the same name stars Gary
Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, Benedict Cumberbatch and John Hurt.
After being kicked out of MI6 George Smiley is brought back in to
hunt for a Soviet mole at the highest levels of the service.
There is a huge amount
of material to be condensed down into a 2 hour film here but the film
does a really good job of capturing not only the period of the story
but also the paranoia of the setting. Inevitably there will be
comparisons with the earlier TV adaptation and I think this version
does lack a little of the punch in the final reveal that the TV
series had but it does well with in the constraints of it's run time.
The direction is really good but I do wonder if someone less familiar
with the material would have found the film as easy to follow.
5/5
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