Starts well and then......

Rating: 7/10 (25 February 2012)

I give this 7 because I am beginning to really like Matt Damon's work and I already love Emily Blunt. The premise of this film is superb and intriguing in the first instance and while the viewer is still trying to work out what is going on I would say it is riveting. Even when one becomes aware of the situation it still works really well. Towards the end of the movie the pace slackens and the story becomes rather hackneyed, leading to a damp squib of an ending. Maybe hanging the whole story on the romance rather than the political angle should have been switched around and it really could have gone somewhere. Overall I can say it held my interest and I enjoyed it, but it could have been so much better with tighter writing and direction and a different emphasis. Blunt and Damon were as good as they could be given the script and they had chemistry, on which the story depended.