Disappointing

Rating: 3/10 (22 January 2012)

We waited a long time to see this movie and were sorely disappointed. It drags on and on and there is little character development of the protagonist, the starring introverted Mr. Smiley. I would skip it.As spy stories go, this one was the slowest, dullest. Even the scenes meant to evoke tension broke down because of a lack of cohesion in the movie. The film flips back and forth without really connecting the earlier events to the later events. There is even a screw-up where a character is shown in a chronologically earlier time in the movie that would not have been possible. The portrayal of the office of British Intelligence was anything but, it was more akin to a shipping business or perhaps a retail chain of sometype. There are some actors, when the story line is interesting, who can command a acene with a look or facial expression: Steve McQueen, Alec Guiness, Clint Eastwood to name a few. Mr. Smiley's character can't pull that off.