a cerebral and absorbing spy story, never ordinary‏

Rating: 7/10 (14 January 2012)

The international espionage seen in most of movies is basically car chases, action scenes and shootings. This one on the contrary, based on a John Le Carre's novel, is totally different, full of weary and normal men, having meetings in sealed rooms and strange conversations in obscure corners of London. Everything's perfect with this direction (Tomas Alfredson) and this screenplay. The camera moves in a sinister fashion, rooms are full of smoke and fear, and - overall - all the characters are real. "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" is exactly right, faithful to the tone set by the novel. The viewer will see a huge number of events, characters and possibilities. Usual and ordinary spy movies have scenes that keep audience oriented, that's why they end up not looking real, whereas in this story every piece of information is mixed and meshed, forcing the viewer to think and making every performance believable.