Product: Tailor of Panama [VHS] (2001)
Rating: 4.0
Much ado about.......
Here is a satire on the "real" life of secret agents. Pierce Brosnan portrays what amounts to a spoof of his James Bond character. Geoffrey Rush steals the show as a bumbling, Joe-nobody tailor who wants nothing more than to live a quiet life with his family and be left alone.The humor in this movie is very subtle. It is a dry comedy that is the opposite of slapstick. What we end up laughing at is how it makes fun of the so-called "adventerous" life of a spy. Instead of the glamour of James Bond, we get the "ho-hum" reality of just how banal the life of a spy can be.Working for the government myself, I could especially relate to the bit about the bureaucracy shoveling millions of $$ down the drain for the most frivolous of causes. I can state for the record that this sort of thing DOES happen.A word of caution is in order about this film. The author spent time in the spy business as his profession. He ends up pulling no punches in mocking the Intel biz. People who work for the CIA, NSA, FBI and Pentagon are sure to be offended by this DVD. Just remember - it's all in good fun!