Change for change sake

Rating: 5/10 (27 January 2012)

No nice long crescendos just short ones. I know fitting the TV episodes into two hours is hard and trying to make it different difficult this interpretation lacked the intelligence obvious in the subject matter. For example anyone of any intelligence, and the service tries to recruit the best would make excuses not to attend the Christmas office party. The nature of the subject matter and the risks involved require intelligence. If the employees need a special spy proof box to hold meetings in then they obviously not intelligent enough to know when and what matters. The original TV adaptation brought out how serious security affairs are handled in a moderate and intelligent way. This is more true to life in the seventies than this film displays. A crescendo could of been made of the ricky tarr affair, smaller crescendos could of been implemented in the circus infiltration. The brief homosexual reference of peter Gilliam whats the point? Finally Stephan graham do you really need the money? All in all this film might be okay for those who have not seen the TV episodes and are more unaware of what intelligence is all about.