like watching a slow motion movie in a retire home

Rating: Null/10 (7 January 2012)

what a let down. i thought after all these years, with so many things changed, improved, a remake of such movie might be looked different, but to my regret, it's still a deadbeat. i felt like watching a slow movie in slow motion, all the characters were just like people in a big retire home. the witch hunt of a mole during the cold war was like a bunch of old relics trying to solve a puzzle. there's nothing new here, just followed the original le carre's snail crawling literary paces to finish the 18 holes golf course. the whole story was so boring, the only thing that made feel alive was the telex machine, at least it typed faster. there was no tension at all. the cars, the costumes, the street scenes, the background sound track, the music....well, what a big yawn. the British people are a very strange species, they are tough, cold with a strong will, but at the same time, they are so easy to become a turn coat. there are no other countries in our history that the intelligence people were so full of traitors except the Chinese. but i really don't think that ideology was so strong to the British, not as the Chinese. so what made them decide to become a spy, a mole, a traitor to their country? le carre's novels sometimes with a strong touch of melancholy sentimentalism, but was it true to the British intelligence community? i don't think so.