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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - Movie Review
Grade: C
Tomas Alfredson’s film adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is so indubitably intricate and complex, that only those willing to engross themselves in the film will find any sort of gratification. While Tinker is stunningly a visual chef-d’oeu·vre, its convoluted attempt to compress a thrilling and extensive tale of espionage falls more into a category of the insipid.
Based on John Le Carre’s book of the same name - infamously known as the novel that changed the game of the “spy” genre - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy tells the story of George Smiley (Gary Oldman), a former espionage who is called from retirement to find a mole within British Intelligence. Years after a failed incident in Cold War Hungary, Smiley is given information that a double agent is midst the top of the British agency - nicknamed the “circus” - and was responsible for the mishap. The film then revolves around Smiley’s venture to identify the mole, which includes an impressive limey acting force of Colin Firth, Toby Jones, Ciaran Hinds and David Denik.
