Good if classified under fantasy

Rating: 4/10 (29 August 2016)

The 'ultimate' in a series of movies which aims to dumb down human understanding of how intelligence agencies and their agents work. Move over movie-makers who believe that films are supposed to inform apart from entertain and closely resemble reality. Who needs your painstaking research in this digital age when a few humans in front of monitors can chase and track everyone they want by pressing a key? The movie portrays the working of CIA that no intelligence agency can hope to attain even if half the world is populated by its robots and can move on to track 'targets' as soon as a single voice instruction is given by an individual sitting pretty somewhere in the US. Bourne Ultimatum's 8.1 rating as against Topaz's 6.3 is the giveaway clue on why people are encouraged to make such movies. If not of fantasy genre, it should be classified as a comedy, given the number of times I laughed out loud.