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- 1984
- R
- Warner Bros.
- 2 h 10 m
- 1984
- R
- Warner Bros.
- 2 h 10 m
Summary An American Actress with a penchant for lying is forceably recruited by Mosad, the Israeli intelligence agency to trap a Palestinian bomber, by pretending to be the girlfriend of his dead brother.
Directed By: George Roy Hill
Written By: Loring Mandel, John le Carré
- 1984
- R
- Warner Bros.
- 2 h 10 m
- 1984
- R
- Warner Bros.
- 2 h 10 m
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Summary An American Actress with a penchant for lying is forceably recruited by Mosad, the Israeli intelligence agency to trap a Palestinian bomber, by pretending to be the girlfriend of his dead brother.
Directed By: George Roy Hill
Written By: Loring Mandel, John le Carré
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Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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30% Positive
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
54
30% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
50% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
20% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Hill has never been better in shaping and pacing a movie that has the excitement, romance and resonance of the best popular art. [15 Oct 1984, p.118]
Overall, this is a well-crafted, carefully paced, and appropriately cerebral work -- if the intention is to ape Le Carre's writing style, that is, and like the writer, de-glamorize the spy genre. If you're a fan of the style, this film will please.
The tragedy of these two peoples, killing each other because each has just claims to the same plot of ground, is presented with efficient, impersonal evenhandedness, so that we care about neither of them.
What the film demonstrates most obviously is that when there is this much plot on the screen, there isn't time for actors to develop anything much in the way of plausibility of characterization.
A bouillon cube, a bland and boring thing with only a meagre resemblance to its source. [23 Oct 1984]
Crammed into 130 minutes of screen time, Le Carre's story loses much of its motivation, and although there is plenty of action and suspense, often it seems that the action is happening in the wrong places to the wrong people.
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