A complex spy thriller. Slow, not easy to follow. Not a satisfying ending.

Rating: Null/10 (22 January 2012)

Hope you guys read the official storyline.
Beyond that, the cinematography, the cast, the direction, etc were all very good.
Though there are a lot of people telling this movie is awesome, I was not too happy. The movie is set in old Britain, and that part was good, its 'very' authentic and the high res HD that we are now watching in, we can see so many details that make this movie a treat to watch.
But, a big but, the story though it seemed complex, as they don't do too much spoon feeding, and tries to make us think, its actually very simple. Hence the need to make it seem artificially complex. We realize this only after the movie, when we sit and think about it, and then we sort of feel cheated.
Think of novels from Agatha Criste, Alistair McLain, etc.,such a story is wonderful as a book, as your imagination fills out the voids, makes it coloufull and you become intimately aware of the many many details, and because you are 'reading', the brain figures out the mystery and its exciting to us. Again - 'But' as a movie, somehow the whole things feels boring.
Another problem was that, they somehow assume that we the audience is intimately aware of the politics of that age. I think they are forgetting that its now 40yrs since that and most of us are relatively too young, never grew up in that era and so have no awareness of the nuances of that age. Not even the broad cold war thing seems important. This movie might have been brilliant if it had come out in the 1980s. But now, it feels bland, and insignificant.
I would blame the movie itself, as I saw 'The Help', and its able to drag us into that early 1900s age and empathize with its characters. Even Kungfu Panda 2 was so much more fun to watch (though in a very differnet way). So thats how this movie compares with others released recently.
Still, I would say, go watch, as its nice to see those 70s, its sort of romantic. :-)...............