Smiley is not smiling (tv)

Rating: 4/10 (7 September 2016)

This is a pure LeCarré adaptation as this spook movie is only about agents and not high technology! Those agents work on the ground, gather papers, search motives and explanations. So it's more like a detective case and it's highly cerebral! It's even more complicated that there are a lot of names and the nature of intelligence is to hide the truth very well. So we have a very slow movie, with no action at all, happening in a gloom 70s England (deduced from the psychedelic fashion and furniture)! Sure we have an all star team of British actors but honestly, at the end, the movie is a bit confusing and it lacks energy and tension to be riveting!