A disappointing version

Rating: 3/10 (28 October 2012)

This film is deeply disappointing. It may be fair enough to shorten the story for the film but why change strong dialogue in the book into weak dialogue in the film ? Why have all the good actors sitting around staring at each other with nothing or almost nothing to say ? We are told very little about Tinker, tailor etc as characters; in this film they have no reputations.
Almost the only good acting in the movie is a couple of good scenes by Mark Strong as Jim Prideaux. But you could make a pastiche of this movie with a lot of the characters played by shop dummies. Forget this film, just read the book.