Confusion reigns

Rating: 7/10 (10 May 2013)

I was so looking forward to seeing the film when it first came out....I must say as I was walking out of the theater I felt confused and wondered if I was getting too old to appreciate contemporary cinema...Recently I returned to the Smiley trilogy, book form, and decided to give Tinker, Tailor-movie form-another go...
Well, it was a bit much....Really, Smiley swimming? Prideaux in a shopping mall? What happened to Guillam? Way too many liberties taken with the script, then the smoke, although I did enjoy Oldman as Smiley...Thought Firth was miscast or I suspect it was very poor character development...Another thing, the actors, apart from Oldman, didn't seem to be enjoying themselves....Well, what a shame with a script adding chaos to a perfectly good story which has enough of chaos to begin with....
Very Disappointing....