No Depth to Characters

Rating: 2/10 (16 October 2011)

I went to see this film expecting great things, a thinking man's thriller is what I had read. Unfortunately in trying to squeeze a very complex plot into two hours no amount of fine acting was going to make this movie any more than a superficial cover of the original TV series. The movie, however, still felt long and drawn out probably because I never engaged with the characters. We were not given enough detail or history on any of the key characters or 'suspects', we did not really know what they did or feel any affinity to them, therefore by the end I not only wasn't shocked or surprised by who was the spy or why they did it, I just didn't care. In essence although there was some good acting the delivery of the story was flawed and left massive holes for the viewer to fill in. All in all a waste of a couple of hours.