Movie Name:- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Release Date:- 9 December 2011
Directed By:- Tomas Alfredson
Produced By:- Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Robyn Slovo
Written by:- John le Carré, Peter Straughan
Category / Genres:- Thriller
IMDB Rating:- 7.7
Run Time:- 127 Minutes
Star Cast:- Mark Strong, John Hurt, Zoltán Mucsi, Péter Kálloy Molnár, Ilona Kassai, Imre Csuja, Gary Oldman, Gary Oldman, David Dencik, Ciarán Hinds, Colin Firth, Kathy Burke, Benedict Cumberbatch, Stephen Graham, Arthur Nightingale
Official Website:- http://www.tinker-tailor-soldier-spy.com
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Movie Story Line:- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a spy movie in which it is suspected that there can be a mole inside the Circus. Ricki Tarr, the British agent, makes Oliver Lacon aware about this and enrolls two agents for the investigation of the matter. Peter Guillam and George Smiley are the agents employed for the task and they must analyze everything keeping in mind that the Circus leadership should not get to know about it. This is done because anyone among them can be a mole. George Smiley believes that Communist Czechoslovakia’s mission, which is termed as Operation Testify, met its end all because of the mole. It was known that Operation Testify was started because of Czech Army general’s kidnapping. However, later, it is revealed by Circus agent Jim Prideaux that the aim of the operation was to become acquainted with the identity of the mole. After all the investigations and the hard-work of the investigators, a former friend comes out to be a mole. He was a cherished worker, but the sudden revelation of his identity places everyone in a state of shock. Bill Haydon comes out to be the mole. He is the one who once had an affair with Smiley’s now separated wife. After the success of Smiley in knowing about the mole, he is chosen as the Circus’ temporary head. The suspense of the movie is very well wrapped in the layers of drama. One must watch Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy online in order to grab this entertaining movie in no time.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Movie Review:- As someone who watched the original BBC adaptation in 1980 and admired it as one of the best BBC series ever made, watching this film was a disappointment. It suffers by comparison in almost every respect. At key scenes I kept thinking back to the BBC version: Smiley's interviews with Connie, beautifully played by Beryl Reid; the scenes with Jerry Westerby played by Joss Ackland; the introduction to the main characters as we see them enter the Circus meeting room for the first time - particularly Percy's elaborate pipe filling. In this version we have moved on three scenes in the time it takes Percy to tamp down his tobacco.
And that is one of the major problems with this film, the plot exposition is so compressed. It has been well done, but it was the slow unfolding of the 'beautiful knot' that was half the pleasure. The other half was the incomparable acting led by Guinness. Gary Oldman is a seriously good actor, but Guinness was a great actor and could convey with a gaze or a look the deep intelligence and melancholy at the heart of the character in a way that Oldman can't.
Even the recreation of the 1970's, though convincing , has to be strived for, whereas in 1979 it was just there for the BBC, ready to be used. The overall result left me ultimately feeling uninvolved. The film ended, the lights came up and that was that. OK but not as good as the book or the TV series. Now that's damning with faint praise.
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