Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Review
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Starring: Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, John Hurt, Mark Strong, Toby Jones and Tom Hardy
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Rated: R
Watching TTSS is like taking a time machine back to the days where information was everything but the means of gathering information and transferring was so laborious that it’s shocking. There is a scene where a bag is checked, files are taken, a phone call is made, the bag is brought back for the files to be put in, the bag is given back and transferred to the second floor, a long involved process for what now would be a thumb drive in a computer. It’s this old school process and ways that draw you into the story.
The cast is stacked with the likes of English heavyweights Colin Firth, Mark Strong and John Hurt as well as rising star Tom Hardy. The star though is Gary Oldman.
Oldman has to be the most underappreciated actor working today; the man truly is a chameleon it’s hard to believe when seeing him as Smiley that this is the same guy that was Drexl in True Romance, Stansfield in Leon or even Gordon in the Batman Franchise. As Smiley it isn’t so much what Oldman is saying but more his sense of calm and reaction to the other characters, slowly putting the pieces together. It truly is an Acting workshop. With a limited body count and nary an action sequence this is the thinking man’s spy movie.
Grade-88
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With so much information being thrown at us, I wish that there was much more time for all of it to just sink in but I liked the fact that the film made you pay attention to every little detail as this story just kept building and building. Everybody here in this cast is great too, especially Oldman who perfectly brings this flick together. Good review. Check out mine when you get the chance.