Review of A Most Wanted Man (2014) by Compi24 — 09 Mar 2017
It's a visually pleasing film with a helluva lot to say about the current state of global intelligence and an admirable Philip Seymour Hoffman performance, but there's also this overall sense of mundanity about "A Most Wanted Man" that I just can't help but call attention to.
True, the business-as-usual tone sure helps establish the characters as being familiar with the world at hand, but without any urgency in almost any character within this film, there's simply nothing for me to latch on to as a viewer.
Like some other recent le Carré adaptations, "A Most Wanted Man" plays things frustratingly close to the vest, with a slow-burning pot of a plot that never quite boils over into anything memorable.
Sprinkle in a couple of spotty German accents here and there and you've all but lost me. Again, director Anton Corbijn may have achieved a noteworthy aesthetic here, but I'm more of a "colorful narrative and characters" kind of guy myself.
Not necessarily a bad movie per se. Just a film that I desperately wanted to like that ended up not reciprocating in the end.
This review of A Most Wanted Man (2014) was written by Compi24 on 09 March 2017.
A Most Wanted Man has generally received positive reviews.
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