Overview
In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet mole within his former colleagues at the heart of MI6.
This is one of those films that separate the real film appreciators from the average Joe. When you read “spy movie” you probably think that this is going to be some James Bond movie. It is far, far from that. I absolutely loved it. Gary Oldman couldn’t have said more than 200 words in the whole movie and he was phenomenal.
This is probably one of those kinds of movies that is a litmus test for the kind of movie viewer you are (I recently thought the same of The Station Agent). If you can appreciate and love a film like this you and I are probably going to get along alright.
IHATEBadMovies.com reviews Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Movie title: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Movie description: In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet mole within his former colleagues at the heart of MI6.
Date published: 2012-02-04
Director(s): Tomas Alfredson
Actor(s): John Hurt, Gary Oldman, Kathy Burke, Benedict Cumberbatch, Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Toby Jones, Stephen Graham, Ciarán Hinds, Simon McBurney, David Dencik, Tom Hardy, Svetlana Khodchenkova, Arthur Nightingale, Mucsi Zoltán, Amanda Fairbank-Hynes, Laura Carmichael, Konstantin Khabenskiy, Ilona Kassai, Imre Csuja, Péter Kálloy Molnár, Peter O'Connor, Roger Lloyd Pack, Stuart Graham, Jamie Thomas King, Philip Martin Brown, Christian McKay, Rupert Procter, Linda Marlowe, Michael Sarne, Katrina Vasilieva, John le Carré
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Mystery
My Review
This is one of those films that separate the real film appreciators from the average Joe. When you read “spy movie” you probably think that this is going to be some James Bond movie. It is far, far from that. I absolutely loved it. Gary Oldman couldn’t have said more than 200 words in the whole movie and he was phenomenal.
This is probably one of those kinds of movies that is a litmus test for the kind of movie viewer you are (I recently thought the same of The Station Agent). If you can appreciate and love a film like this you and I are probably going to get along alright.
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My Review - 9/10
9/10