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A pretty cool but very slow spy movie. Watchable.
If you are expecting a Jason Bourne, or James Bond type spy thriller, don't waste your time or money on this film. If you are impressed with speed and exictement of watching grass grow, I also recommend saving your time and money. Seriously, this was the slowest, most boring movie I have watched in ages. Maybe if I had read the book and had some notion as to the story prior to watching the film,
Great cerebral Movie requiring some attention by the viewer. It is not a Hollywood version with flash and pyrotechnics. Portrays the chess like reality of intelligence or detective work.
Worst movie I have ever seen. Do not waste your time or money unless you want to go to sleep. My entire family went and everybody wanted to leave after the first 30 minutes. The movie critics have no credibility. I will never go by their ratings or even read them after going to this absolutely rotten movie. I should have requested my money back. Buyer beware.
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The Hollywood Reporter
It is one of the few films so visually absorbing, felicitous shot after shot, that its emotional coldness is noticed only at the end, when all the plot twists are unraveled in a solid piece of thinking-man's entertainment for upmarket thriller audiences. Full Review
Amy Biancolli
San Francisco Chronicle
Screenwriters Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan have clarified a few things that needed clarifying, camouflaged a few things that needed camouflaging - and gently tugged some passive flashbacks into the active present. It's a cagey adaptation. Full Review
Andrew Schenker
Slant Magazine
Order may be restored to the Circus, the "bad" elements weeded out, but in the jaundiced world the film has spent the last two hours so effectively delineating, the barriers between good and evil have been shown to be essentially meaningless. Full Review
Angie Errigo
Empire
Utterly absorbing, extremely smart and - considering this is a sad, shabby, drably grey-green world of obsessives, misfits, misdirection, disillusionment, self-delusion and treachery - quite beautifully executed. Full Review
Ann Hornaday
Washington Post
As a stylistic and narrative throwback, Alfredson's adamantly un-thrilling procedural reminds viewers of an era when viewers allowed themselves to be entertained by a good yarn about a few colorful or at least colorlessly compelling characters. Full Review
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