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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy finds George Smiley (Gary Oldman), a recently retired MI6 agent, doing his best to adjust to a life outside the secret service. However, when a disgraced agent reappears with information concerning a mole at the heart of the service, Smiley is drawn back into the murky field of espionage. Tasked with investigating which of his trusted former colleagues has chosen to betray him and their country, Smiley narrows his search to four suspects - all experienced, skilled and successful agents - but past histories, rivalries and friendships make it far from easy to pinpoint the man who is eating away at the heart of the British establishment.
An acting masterclass from the crème de la crème of British film (Colin Firth, The King's Speech; Tom Hardy, Inception; Mark Strong, Kick Ass; Benedict Cumberbatch, Sherlock) and inspired direction from Let The Right One In's Tomas Alfredson make this gripping and tense adaptation of John le Carré's classic spy novel essential viewing.
Extra Features:
- Commentary with Gary Oldman & director Tomas Alfredson
- John le Carré Interview
- Deleted Scenes
- Smiley featurette
- Inside the Circus featurette
- Shadow World featurette
- Interview with Colin Firth
- Interview with Tom Hardy
- Interview with Director Tomas Alfredson and screenwriter Peter Straughan
- UK Premiere featurette
- Sky Movies featurette
- Photo Gallery
- Trailers
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy finds George Smiley (Gary Oldman), a recently retired MI6 agent, doing his best to adjust to a life outside the secret service. However, when a disgraced agent reappears with information concerning a mole at the heart of the service, Smiley is drawn back into the murky field of espionage. Tasked with investigating which of his trusted former colleagues has chosen to betray him and their country, Smiley narrows his search to four suspects - all experienced, skilled and successful agents - but past histories, rivalries and friendships make it far from easy to pinpoint the man who is eating away at the heart of the British establishment.
An acting masterclass from the crème de la crème of British film (Colin Firth, The King's Speech; Tom Hardy, Inception; Mark Strong, Kick Ass; Benedict Cumberbatch, Sherlock Holmes) and inspired direction from Let The Right One In's Tomas Alfredson make this gripping and tense adaptation of John le Carré's classic spy novel essential viewing.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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A recipe for quick profit: (1) Choose a worshipped film for a remake. (2) Make big name actors an offer they can't refuse by emphasizing it's for just a few minutes of "winging it" on screen. (3) Rip through the story with abrupt cutting, huge disjunctures and perfunctory attention to core elements. (4) Capitalize on a lifetime's networking to call in a few favours from EMPIRE and similar rating mills to get 5-star ratings to splash around. (5) Release reviews praising the film and predicting criticism will come only from special effects freaks hungry for James Bond razzle-dazzle & exploding oil tanks, and from nervous hopheads too "impatient" to watch a slow moving 5-star masterpiece. 6) Have studio hands and relatives bang away at the "not helpful" button on the 1 & 2 star Amazon Reviews. (7) Then I'd review my bank account daily with the utmost satisfaction. So much for my fantasy of what I'd do, generally speaking.
Ooops, it looks like I've run out of time today, so I'll address myself to THIS film on some future occasion.
Ooops, it looks like I've run out of time today, so I'll address myself to THIS film on some future occasion.
100 of 121 people found the following review helpful
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For everyone comparing this new movie to the book and the tv series (and I am a fan of both) - Le Carre himself has said in interviews that he categorically did not want someone just copying the book or even the series. He wanted a new take on the story. Yes, it is different. Of course it would have been nice to have characters fleshed out a bit more, but then, I think that will be the problem with anyone who has read the book or seen the series - you expect the same thing stuffed into an hour something, and that is nigh on impossible. My only personal gripe is that I didn't really understand some seemingly superficial changes, like Sam Collins (in the book) being changed in name to Gerry Westerby (considering Gerry is a whole big character on his own in the second book, and ultra posh to boot), Czech Republic being changed to Hungary etc. But that is minor, and overall, I think this was a great, quiet movie, the kind of thing you just don't get anymore. To the commentator who said this movie was more about betrayal than spies, it's probably true that this was the emphasis, but in the book, it is just as much about the nature of betrayal in relationships as it is about spies (in the book see Guillam/Camilla, Smiley/Ann, Little Bill/Prideaux, Connie/The Circus and even reality as she knew it, etc etc), to the point where you wonder if there is anything redeeming about the world outside of the Circus.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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It is fair to say that I am a fan of John Le Carre's masterpiece, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. I have read the book, I love the TV series with Alec Guinness and thoroughly enjoyed the recent radio adaptation with Simon Russell Beale. And now, finally, there is a film. And what an amazingly good film it is!
The plot is simple, there is a Russian mole in British intelligence. Retired spy George Smiley is drafted in by the powers that be to examine the service from the outside with an insider's eye to try and find the mole. But it's so much more than this simple two sentence summary conveys. The book and the film are all about atmosphere. The atmosphere of the paranoid intelligence world of the early seventies, at the height of the cold war. And this film produces that atmosphere in spades.
Gary Oldman is an impressive Smiley. He spends the first quarter of an hour looking slightly confused and bumbling, then as he gets involved in the mystery you see that this is just a facade, and that there is an incisive and sharply intelligent mind behind the mask. He portrays a ruthless and cunning Smiley, but who rarely reveals himself as such and has a huge impact when he does become commanding and authoritative. It's different to those that have portrayed Smiley in the past, but still the essential character and a truly exceptional performance that really carries the film.
The film moves at a gentle pace, with an ever increasing sense of urgency, paranoia and danger as it heads towards the climax. There is no Bond style derring do here, just the careful gathering of evidence while trying to remain unobserved. The film is presented in a series of snapshots and remembrances, never quite giving the whole story. It's impressive as it seems slightly jumbled and incomplete, but you still get the sense of the story. It seems done in this way to give you the story in the way that Smiley gets it, fragments of information to be built into a complete picture that will reveal the mole.
Obviously in trying to condense such a complex book into 2 hours much has been lost and changed, but the changes serve to make the story sensible without too much exposition, and the cuts do not really damage the story. With one exception. I felt that the four main suspects (Allenine, Bland, Haydon and Esterhaze) were not sufficiently fleshed out and the reasons for suspecting each explored. The film has sacrificed a lot of the sense of character for the sake of plot and atmosphere, and I strongly felt that a little more character development would have made it truly amazing.
All in all, an exceptionally good film, well worth watching for anyone who enjoys intelligent cinema with a sense of atmosphere. I loved it, 5 stars.
The plot is simple, there is a Russian mole in British intelligence. Retired spy George Smiley is drafted in by the powers that be to examine the service from the outside with an insider's eye to try and find the mole. But it's so much more than this simple two sentence summary conveys. The book and the film are all about atmosphere. The atmosphere of the paranoid intelligence world of the early seventies, at the height of the cold war. And this film produces that atmosphere in spades.
Gary Oldman is an impressive Smiley. He spends the first quarter of an hour looking slightly confused and bumbling, then as he gets involved in the mystery you see that this is just a facade, and that there is an incisive and sharply intelligent mind behind the mask. He portrays a ruthless and cunning Smiley, but who rarely reveals himself as such and has a huge impact when he does become commanding and authoritative. It's different to those that have portrayed Smiley in the past, but still the essential character and a truly exceptional performance that really carries the film.
The film moves at a gentle pace, with an ever increasing sense of urgency, paranoia and danger as it heads towards the climax. There is no Bond style derring do here, just the careful gathering of evidence while trying to remain unobserved. The film is presented in a series of snapshots and remembrances, never quite giving the whole story. It's impressive as it seems slightly jumbled and incomplete, but you still get the sense of the story. It seems done in this way to give you the story in the way that Smiley gets it, fragments of information to be built into a complete picture that will reveal the mole.
Obviously in trying to condense such a complex book into 2 hours much has been lost and changed, but the changes serve to make the story sensible without too much exposition, and the cuts do not really damage the story. With one exception. I felt that the four main suspects (Allenine, Bland, Haydon and Esterhaze) were not sufficiently fleshed out and the reasons for suspecting each explored. The film has sacrificed a lot of the sense of character for the sake of plot and atmosphere, and I strongly felt that a little more character development would have made it truly amazing.
All in all, an exceptionally good film, well worth watching for anyone who enjoys intelligent cinema with a sense of atmosphere. I loved it, 5 stars.
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Buy the Alec Guinness version instead
This film was the non event of 2011. I honestly can't understand what they were trying to do by remaking this. Almost a carbon copy of the TV series. Read more
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What a shambles!
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