I hated this director, sound track and ambiguous plot.

Rating: 6/10 (5 May 2012)

Spoilers, and harsh commments. Very slow paced but purposely made overly complex so that it requires constant attention to often vague disjointed and nuanced details. Many wasted scenes of old men sitting and scowling but without any action and with no development of the characters. Thrilling scenes of spies shuffling papers. Worse yet, no one ever lays out the key plot points or timeline so you constantly ask yourself WTF is going on? Why this and Whaaat? When, where and why did that happen, or did it???? Oldman often does not react or explain much, rather he just stays strangely still, looking pensive and emotionless, looking into space, even when he seems to be in grave danger, or is sending his helpers out on deadly missions. And then the pace picks up as the film ends with quick cuts to puzzling scenes. Like the one about the top MI5 spymaster who gets taken by Smiley to a country field and a plane mysteriously lands and he breaks down begging not to go. Uh, where? Why? And the final ludicrous killing of the mole outside a "safe house" in the woods by Esterhase for obscure reasons. Gay lovers? Mercy? Thanks for getting him released? The Russians? Who knows (maybe its in he book). I hated the direction, not to speak of the bad sound track and weird songs (Mr.Wu?).