Warning - Good Actors Do Not a Good Movie Make!

Rating: 3/10 (14 August 2012)

Gary Oldman is George Smiley, a British agent who comes out of retirement when he asked to find a mole in the system. Enough of the plot. The rest of what I have to say is probably not original, but I wanted to add my two cents. I wanted to see if there were other people who felt like me, and I'm glad to see there are. I didn't get the big deal about this film. I heard such praises for the best film of the year, or the suspense film of all suspense films! I was very disappointed in this film. This is not to say I don't appreciate deliberately paced films that are dramas, like The Painted Veil and The Straight Story, two very different films. But this was just awful. I do admit what made it worse for me, was that I have seen the original Alec Guinness miniseries some years back, and while it was slow-paced as well, it was miles ahead of this. Good actors are saddled with muddy waters and can't get out of it in this adaptation of the John Le Carre story. Don't say you haven't been warned! Alec Guinness, where are you?