back to the states for the bucks

Rating: 10/10 (22 January 2012)

NO No no no no no, please no. First, Oldman is probably one of the best actor in the world if not ever. Becomes most characters with ease. in this case, there was nothing left for the audience. I understand what the film maker is trying to do. Story driven, real plot, no car chasers, real writing. The film is over written, it labors. It is a period film that spends most of the time in flash backs. The director has tried too hard! It's brechtian without the drama, or story or plot. it is so boring and slow, you just pray that maybe some more people get killed or shot, or something, anything. 99.9% of most Hollywood films are rubbish, with too many car chasers and no story and are becoming computer generated junk for the most. But this films goes too far the other way. Did the producers have their own money in this film? it looks a lot like it. Art first, audience 100TH! I understand and I was genuinely looking for this. But smiley also has Witt, charm and he is smart as a whip, according to the book. Oldman was paying tribute to Sir Alec, and although he can do any accent in the world, Oldman really struggles with a posh British accent. he can't do Hugh Grant's voice. Mainly because for those of you who don't know, his real voice is somewhere between a drunk Peter cook doing an impersonation of Steven Burkov. but he is the best. But the audience was left out of this one. Darcy tried, and mark strong is always the good actor in really bad movies, I thought at the end of the film that he and Darcy were gay lovers, don't ask me why! i saw the producers of this film bagging the Oscars the other night. if i produced this film, i would mostly be bagging cinema as an art form, sometimes directors, fellow actors and writers are too close and respectful of each other and the material. The producers of this film were just a bit too close to the material. it is amazing, if you were able to stay awake, by the end of the film they were putting on a Harry potter, looking for sequels. Maybe there will be more, lets just forget about this one, and put Bond in the next one and Jason for good measure. British cinema please! my goodness, what a bunch of git's. Hello Hello Hello, whats going on here then? del-boys playing the toffy geezer, up the old bill in slow mo backward rainbow, dear dear deary me, get your hand off it. if you do have to watch it, might I suggest crystal meth for the first half hour, if your still there, crack open the hard core please please please 20 mill, I just hope Gary got 19.5, he probably needs it. The other real star of this film was whiskey! Every character, in every scene is drinking whiskey or about to pour a glass. Maybe this is the real British intelligence. And windows, for some reason Oldman spends about a combined half hour of the movie staring longingly out windows for some reason, he's thinking! about what! all of the films sub plots were meaningless, because the film itself had no plot to begin with. the film needed intrigued, little bit of Richard Burton and maybe some shots of check point Charlie. The film-maker doesn't understand that most young people, even thirty something people know very little of the cold war and its tension around the world. the actual game of cat and mouse. films have to be able to justify themselves. This film had no pace, no meaning, no beginning, no middle, no end. It tried hard to persuade us there was tension, but by that stage you just didn't care. Le carre is not Shakespeare, none of these characters were even the slightest bit 3 dimensional. but he is better than this, oldman is better than this, but he has made real duds over the years and this is up there. This film will cause depression, erectile dysfunction, drowsiness and if you are a little tired before you watch it, you will fall into a coma.