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Summary: Boring travesty of Le Carre's work.
Review: I love Le Carre and was looking forward to this film. But what a mess! The plot is a mishmash -- after about an hour I no longer cared what might happen to the protagonists. Excellent actors like Ralph Richardson and Anthony Hopkins are wasted in secondary roles. Other reviewers say that this movie was edited to death and I believe it. Save your money. Maybe they'll release Spy Who Came In From The Cold on DVD some day.
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Summary: Boring travesty of Le Carre's work.
Review: I love Le Carre and was looking forward to this film. But what a mess! The plot is a mishmash -- after about an hour I no longer cared what might happen to the protagonists. Excellent actors like Ralph Richardson and Anthony Hopkins are wasted in secondary roles. Other reviewers say that this movie was edited to death and I believe it. Save your money. Maybe they'll release Spy Who Came In From The Cold on DVD some day.
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Summary: Utter trash
Review: If I could have given it zero stars, I would have. A complete botch of adapting of an excellent novel to film. The major plot line of intermural skullduggery between British spy agencies was dumped rendering Anthony Hopkins excellent performance inexplicable. Add in the worst counter-culture nonsense idyll on film since the pointless Death Valley ramble in Antonioni's "Zabriski Point". The horror... The horror...
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Summary: Good Acting
Review: Looking Glass War gets you hooked the minute beutiful Christopher Jones comes on screen. Fortunately he's in almost every scene! He is not only more beautiful than his co star (Pia Degermark) but he is also excellant in the role. He is really American but his Polish accent is flawless. Movie has some exciting moments & intrigue. Worth watching if only for Jones' performance & a bit w/Anthony Hopkins.
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Summary: Cold War performance from Christopher Jones
Review: This is an excellent cold war film competently acted, well scripted and neatly directed. It is a superb adaptation of John Le Carré's best-selling novel. Paranoia runs rampant here. Christopher Jones is brilliant as the civilian turned spy. Christopher Jones should have gone on to greater things. His pinnacle as an actor came in David Lean's epic "RYAN'S DAUGHTER." Anthony Hopkins and Ralph Richardson are also featured.
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Summary: Cold War performance from Christopher Jones
Review: This is an excellent cold war film competently acted, well scripted and neatly directed. It is a superb adaptation of John Le Carré's best-selling novel. Paranoia runs rampant here. Christopher Jones is brilliant as the civilian turned spy. Christopher Jones should have gone on to greater things. His pinnacle as an actor came in David Lean's epic "RYAN'S DAUGHTER." Anthony Hopkins and Ralph Richardson are also featured.
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Summary: Could have been . . . .
Review: This movie was edited to death and dullness. Crucial scenes were obviously cut which threw the plot out of joint and into inaction. It could have been, and probably was before editing, a dandy cold war spy flic. It is worth three stars for historical value.
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Summary: Could have been . . . .
Review: This movie was edited to death and dullness. Crucial scenes were obviously cut which threw the plot out of joint and into inaction. It could have been, and probably was before editing, a dandy cold war spy flic. It is worth three stars for historical value.
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Summary: Classic British Cold War Fare
Review: What does a classic cold war movie need? To my mind, a shot of the West End of London, some cynical, dead-pan British spies, a plot from a Le Carre novel and a few shots of Eastern Europe (probably filmed in Essex or some such place). Add a dashing youngster to offset the cynics and, of course, a nasty ending leaving little room for faith in human nature. You have a classic.If you like Harry Palmer of the Ipcress File, Funeral in Berlin and the Billion Dollar Brain, chances are you'll love this. If you are a James Bond fan, maybe not. This is for the lover of the anti-hero spy rather than the dashing secret agent. Two thumbs up as far as I'm concerned.
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Summary: Classic British Cold War Fare
Review: What does a classic cold war movie need? To my mind, a shot of the West End of London, some cynical, dead-pan British spies, a plot from a Le Carre novel and a few shots of Eastern Europe (probably filmed in Essex or some such place). Add a dashing youngster to offset the cynics and, of course, a nasty ending leaving little room for faith in human nature. You have a classic. If you like Harry Palmer of the Ipcress File, Funeral in Berlin and the Billion Dollar Brain, chances are you'll love this. If you are a James Bond fan, maybe not. This is for the lover of the anti-hero spy rather than the dashing secret agent. Two thumbs up as far as I'm concerned.
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