Wooden Acting, Glacial Pace

Rating: 1/10 (9 January 2014)

Gary Olman was atrocious as Smiley. In particular his face was permanently devoid of expression. He was like a ventriloquist's dummy, except he lacked a dummy's range of emotions.
The only interesting scenes involved the bitchy top spies upstairs, too intent on stabbing each other in the back to mind the shop.
And nothing happened. Looong periods where there's so little action that the lights would have gone out had the switch been tied to a motion detector.
The storytelling was hopelessly opaque.
The miniseries was infinitely better.