Like a school play adaption

Rating: 1/10 (7 January 2012)

If you've read the Smiley/Karla trilogy, you might wonder whether the director of this production had. Smiley - goes swimming and is fit. Westerby - is a Liverpudlian with a thick scouse accent. Connie Sachs - Mother Russia - can barely speak English. Guillam - is gay. Esterhase - is now called Esterhaus. Prideaux is sent to - Budapest. Control takes all his documents home to his flat - where they are still lying around weeks after his death! I'm sorry, but this was a terrible film. How on earth they ever thought they'd come even close to the BBC series, I don't know. The characters are quite unsophisticated and the plot has been lost. If you are a leCarré fan, you'll probably check it out. Prepare to be underwhelmed.