am i the only one?

Rating: 8/10 (27 December 2006)

Fantastic story. When it was over, I asked my son, who also loved it, what time it was. He said, "That was a 3 hour movie." Neither of us had any idea it had been that long. It felt like 20 minutes. Fantastic. Am I the only one, however, that realized that Wilson's son is not his child, that Margaret seduced him at the party to hide her pregnancy? She never tells him it is not his child because she wants to protect her son.
Also, I love not knowing at the end who threw the girl out of the plane: Wilson? the CIA? the KGB? OK, the odds are that Wilson had it done, but who knows? If he had already known it was going to happen, wouldn't he have shown up on time to his son's wedding?
OK, to those folks who said they hated it. Well, sorry it wasn't Casino Royale. Fact is, the CIA is even more boring than this. It wasn't meant to be an action film. It is more like a horror film that moves slowly through its acts. Think of it as Syriana for bookkeepers. It is full of suspense, but we learn an awful lot about how these spies work. There's a new spy movie out, about Robert Hansen, the FBI agent with 6 kids who sold secrets to the Russians and who put nude pix of his wife up on the internet without her knowledge. It takes a kind of kooky person to thrive in that covert environment.