A movie adaptation of the John LeCarré novel, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is about spying in during the cold war. Set in the 1970′s, the movie begins after a mission in Budapest goes wrong for MI6 and the resignation of the head of the British Intelligence, code name Control (John Hurt). This mission brings to light the fact that one of the senior people in MI6 is a mole for the russians. George Smiley (Gary Oldman) also resigns but is asked by one of the government ministers, who heard a story from an agent (Tom Hardy), to find out if there really is a mole. So Smiley digs into the affairs of MI6 to find out what happened in Budapest and also find out if/who the mole is.
All the production crew of this movie should be incredibly proud of this movie. Everything was incredibly realistic for the time it was set in. The costumes, the sets, the makeup, right down to the haze that was in every workplace from smokers during the ’70s.
The story was great, although I can’t compare it to the book because I haven’t actually read it. There was only one thing that bugged me and it seemed to be the fault of whoever converted the book into a screenplay. There were quite a few really short scenes, no longer then a few seconds that were clearly things from the book that the person writing the script must’ve thought were important but ruined the flow of the movie.
Apart from that last point, the movie was amazing. Just one last thing though. If you go and see it, make sure you pay attention, it can be a little hard to follow if you aren’t.
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