worse that the BBC series, shallow compared to the book, yet Gary Oldman shines

Rating: 4/10 (15 January 2012)

If you never read the book or watched the BBC series after the famous novel (the most famous by the author, some might add), consider yourself in luck: nothing will spoil for you the pleasure of a good Cold-War-style spy thriller, event with a hint of sophistication (a detective-story like rather than action-oriented, it is).
If you read the book and liked it, the movie would be of a questionable value as it is way below the book - as it often happens unless the director is a match in his craft to that one of the author (and, oh, would not you know that such cases are *so* rare!).
However, Gary Oldman's play makes it worth the watch.