Dusty and Demanding

Rating: 8/10 (18 April 2013)

Modeled after the "Real-Life" Spy World of archives, windowless rooms, and dust throated, liquor and cigarette Men of aging faces and protruding mid-sections, this is about as far from Bond and Bourne as it is intended. Those familiar with the Author's Novels and other screen adaptations revel in this oppositeness.
But for others this may be a taxing mind hurt of unbearable proportions. It is dimly lit and everything is brown and shades of rust. It drags along at a pace that is cumbersome and confusing at times, and is as stale as a stakeout.
That is the point, you either climb aboard for the slow-ride and be intellectualized by its layers of Plots and Subplots, vague explanations and cluttered conversations, or not. If not you are likely to throw up your hands and give up, if so, you may be seduced by its subtle cleverness and wish for more. Either way, in the end, almost everyone is looking for more and most likely the sequel (the Book has a follow up) will offer more or less the same wanting, because that is the Nature of this thing.