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Review title: Tedious in the extreme
Product review: I'll tell you why I say it's tedious. There is no attention to characterisation whatsoever. We are given no clues as to the motivations of the characters. They just go about doing mysterious 'stuff'. Colin Firth gets in a whole sentance explaining why he went over to the russians. It's just a pity the sentance is banal.Because the characterisation is missing, the movie is an endless parade of events happening to people we know nothing about and care about less. The plot is built up slowly and it requires intelligence to watch and decypher; that doesn't make it an intelligent film - just one in which the plot has been finely chopped. I'd rather join the dots in a children's play book.I gave it one star for the faithful recreation of the 70s, another for the photography.
