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John Le Carres:Murder Quality

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The reviewer from Beumont, TX has no clue what he was watching. To watch this film without any knowledge of the unparalleled John Le Carre is folly. The reviewer didn't know that the so-called "ex-spy" was Le Carre's great hero - George Smiley, spy par excellence despite his failing in the social graces. If you are aware of Le Carre and Smiley, you will enjoy this movie. It is difficult to portray Le Carre books effectively, because of the depth of his characters, but this does a good job of portraying the Smiley character.

Any movie with the great Joss Ackland and the late Denholm Elliot in the same movie is a joy to behold

Excellent film rendition of the novel, done with the subtle touches that give the educated a stimulating exercise of the "little grey matter".

The so called review by:Reviewer: blavis from Beaumont, TX United States confirms the prevailing lack of educated beings' in Texas and most of the Southern US. Such a pity in this day and age.

Is blavis of Beaumont sure that his brain imploded after the film started! I am sure that Christian Bale is relieved that he was excluded from the crystal clarity of your in-depth and thoughtful review.

I suggest to any and all lovers of literature on film that you pass on the Top Ten favorite films of blavis of Texas and rent, buy or steal this film. You will not be sorry!

yet I feel sorry for blavis from Beaumont, TX United States. This person should stick to James Bond.

This is an excellent adaptation of John Le Carre's elegant mystery concerning Britain's class system and academia.

Beware though: not for the unintelligent.

I don't know if it is possible to convey how truly awful this movie really is, but I'll try. If this review is not completely coherent it is because my brain imploded about a quarter of the way through the film. It was sheer will-power that allowed me to survive until it ended. The plot, which deals with a cop and an ex-spy (I think) investigating a woman's death, is so weak and confusing I was lost almost immediately. Still, I decided to wait it out, hoping all would be made clear at the end. No such luck. Sure, I could probably gain a better understanding by watching it a second time. But that's okay. I'll be content to never understand it. That movie will never come near my VCR again. The characters are incredibly boring, and I often found myself dozing off during the long, monotone dialogue scenes. Meanwhile, the photography is choppy and disconnected. I now believe that this was originally a 6 hour movie and that the filmmakers sliced many of the twenty-minute scenes into two-second shots, which were thrown in randomly to confuse viewers. All through the movie I kept hitting the display button to see how much longer the agony would go on. I was robbed of an hour and forty-six minutes of my life -- hours that I'll be begging for on my deathbed. The movie's only saving grace is Christian Bale, an actor I love more than anything else on this earth, but even he could not save this atrocity. The fact that he looks gorgeous in this, the mere 10 minutes or so total that his character is present, is the only reason the movie warrants one star at all. At the end my head hurt and I wanted to die. I kicked myself repeatedly for paying money for it. And it only reaffirms my belief that England should be forbidden by law from making films altogether.