Reviews

The original short and subsequent full length film were superb. This is a far cry from both. Plot line is ridiculous and immediately stretch credibility beyond all boundaries. Should have left it were it was. This is not worth watching

Sad because I was looking forward for it.

We are supposed to believe a chief owner would leave the restaurant during full service. That investors, who are terrible actors, would interview a cheif mid service. That a chief with no training could bluff his way through service and be rehired the next day. It goes on and on.

Should have had a firm rewrite. Hardly any Stephen Graham and it's much worse for it.

Such a mess. The plot should be simple enough but it's told in the most confusing way. Bond meets woke and no one wins. It's a shame that this is the way it ends. Rather than go big and celebrate the best of what was a dated format, which was so brilliantly achieved in Sky fall, this attempts to shoehorn some updated concepts into the outdated format. That's fundamentally why it's a huge failure. Bond is the product of mid twentieth century social constructs. Sure give him a final send off but at least be true to the original core character. Very stilted dialogue even for a Bond film. Sloppy uninspired directing. Okay but average action scenes. A few nice locations. The pacing is way off. All in all this is the saddest end. Box office failure was not down to CoVid. The writers and director and producers are solely to blame. A strong contender for the worst Bond film ever made.

On this beach an hour is equivalent to 2 years. An obvious.analogy for describing how it feels to watch this film.

Script is dodgy, which is apparent when one hears very accomplished actors really struggling to deliver the lines with any conviction.

Direction and editing is clunky. If I was in a cinema I'd have walked out. As it was I left it running whilst checking my phone.

This is yet another disappointing film from a vastly overrated director.

What a waste of a cast. David Hare must have written this in a couple of hours. Wafer thin plot. Stilted dialogue. Poorly developed characters.

So a spy who is unsuccessful in marriage (Smiley) who loves jazz (Palmer) and collects Art. Falls in love with a woman 25 years younger than him, who falls in love with him.

The Prime Minister has a bad secret. Americans and Israelis have bad secrets and illegal torcher sites.

Cambridge chums who trust each other to find the bad moles and make it public.

If you think you've heard all of it before it's because you have. And every single film that used these plots was way way better than this one. Hare should hang his head in shame. The cast must have regretted signing on for this. The acting certainly suggests this. Avoid.

So much care has gone into the cinematography, design, special effects, casting and acting. One would expect that this should be a success. The reason it isn't is largely down to a terrible working of an original novel into a very weak and unfocused script. It has more holes than any Blackhole theory. It is slow and bleak yet at the same time obvious twists and strangely empty resolution. I really could not wait for the end. That's ironic because the end is largely what it's about.

Whilst the set design and effects are superb the science is way off. Even the average person knows one can't survive being submerged in artic waters and then walk around with wet clothes and open face. The sling shot back to Jupiter's moon is total nonsense. As indeed is the notion that humans could colonise any of Jupiter's moons. The flaw is the script, it's a mess, all over the place.

The human story is deeply depressing, compared to Interstellar which is more accurate scientifically and far more uplifting. I have great admiration for George Clooney but this is not his finest hour.