Terrible direction, dull instead of dry, slow instead of studied, wooden instead of solid, very little acting at all, crappy music.
Joe Cole looks and acts (hah!) like a junior school version of Michael Caine. There is zero chemisty with Lucy Boynton. Tom Hollander is credible, but struggles with the terrible script which has very, very little to do with the masterpiece that Deighton wrote.
The director, James Watson, has little experience with anything like this, and clearly could not take the time to study other spy genre greats.
What a shame.
Joe Cole looks and acts (hah!) like a junior school version of Michael Caine. There is zero chemisty with Lucy Boynton. Tom Hollander is credible, but struggles with the terrible script which has very, very little to do with the masterpiece that Deighton wrote.
The director, James Watson, has little experience with anything like this, and clearly could not take the time to study other spy genre greats.
What a shame.