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The November Man (2014)

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An ex-CIA operative is brought back in on a very personal mission and finds himself pitted against his former pupil in a deadly game involving high level CIA officials and the Russian president-elect.

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Alexa
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Arkady Federov
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Natalia Ulanova
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Sarah
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Meyers
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Perry Weinstein (as William Patton)
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Edgar Simpson
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Denisov
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Agent Jones
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Federov's Chief of Staff
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Peter Devereaux is a former CIA agent who is asked by the man he worked for to extract a woman who is in Russia and is presently close to a man running for President, who is believed to have committed crimes during the Chechen war. She can give them the name of someone who can prove it. His friend says that she will only come to him. So he goes and she gets the info and tries to get out but the man finds out and tries to stop her. Written by rcs0411@yahoo.com

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A spy is never out of the game.

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Action | Crime | Thriller

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Rated R for strong violence including a sexual assault, language, sexuality/nudity and brief drug use | See all certifications »

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27 August 2014 (USA)  »

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Budget:

$15,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$10,105,877 (USA) (29 August 2014)

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$24,984,868 (USA) (17 October 2014)
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Star Pierce Brosnan and director Roger Donaldson previously worked together on Dante's Peak (1997). The pair collaborated on that movie between Brosnan's Bond films GoldenEye (1995) and Tomorrow Never Dies (1997). See more »

Goofs

Near the start when Deveraux gets the Samsung phone with the photos from Natalia, he removes the back of the phone and takes the Micro-SD memory card out, before tossing the phone out of the car window. He had no way to know if the phone was storing photos on the memory card or the phone's internal storage. Android users are given the option to choose when the SD card is first inserted. He could have just as easily been throwing away the photos he was trying to save. See more »

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[first lines]
Alice: [interrupting kiss] I'm going back to work.
Devereaux: [takes her place at the table]
Mason: Don't worry, I checked her out.
Devereaux: Scenario: Agent falls in love with girl. Agent runs an op. Girl gets kidnapped. The other guys want to know the agent's source. What does he do? What do they do to the girl, hmm?
Mason: Is there a point to this?
Devereaux: Yeah, over your right shoulder.
Mason: [seeing another agent] Us or them?
Devereaux: How the fuck should I know? Does it really matter? You feel the need for a relationship? Get a dog.
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Keep It Up
Written and Performed by Makao
Courtesy of Cutting Edge Music (Holdings) Limited
By arrangement with CEG RIghts B.V.
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I'd say it's better than about half of the James Bond movies.
19 September 2014 | by (United States) – See all my reviews

'THE November MAN': Three and a Half Stars (Out of Five)

Spy thriller starring Pierce Brosnan as an ex-CIA agent who must take on an old pupil, when his former employers kill the woman he loves and target him for assassination. The movie was directed by Roger Donaldson; who's directed such popular hits as 'COCTAIL', 'CADILLAC MAN', 'THE BOUNTY', 'SPECIES' and 'DANTE'S PEAK' (which also stars Brosnan). It was written by Michael Finch and Karl Gajdusek and based on the book 'There Are No Spies' (which is the seventh installment in 'The November Man' series) by Bill Granger. It costars Luke Bracey, Olga Kurylenko, Bill Smitrovich and Will Patton. I found it to be pretty entertaining and surprisingly dark, and violent, but still nothing too new or interesting to offer fans of the genre.

Brosnan plays Peter Devereaux; an ex-CIA agent who retired after a student of his, David Mason (Bracey), accidentally killed a kid (while the two were doing an assignment together in Montenegro). Since that time Peter has started a relationship with another CIA operative, named Natalia Ulanova (Mediha Musilovic). He comes out of retirement to aid her on a deep cover assignment in Russia, when she's murdered by Mason; under the orders of CIA chief Perry Weinstein (Patton). Peter then wants revenge on the CIA, for killing Natalia, and will stop at nothing to find out what vital information she uncovered and why she was killed for it.

The story is that of a pretty routine espionage thriller but it does take some pretty dark turns, here and there. Both Brosnan and Bracey's characters do some pretty questionable 'anti-heroic' things that, at times, leave the viewer questioning who they're supposed to root for. So in that way I really enjoyed the movie. Brosnan does slip back into the ultimate spy role with plenty of ease and Donaldson does a pretty effective job delivering the action. Kurylenko looks stunning as usual (and even uncannily resembles a young Catherine Zeta-Jones in some scenes). The film might not have much original to offer, fans of the genre, but it's still a lot of fun; I'd even say it's better than about half of the James Bond movies.

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