The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

The acting in this movie is really good.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Director: Anton Corbijin Screenplay: Andrew Bovell Based on a most wanted man by John Le Carre Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, William Dafoe, Robin Wright and Grigoriy Dobrygin Plot: when a half-Chechen, half-Russian turns up illegally in Hamburg it puts the German and American Governments on full attack. Review: I found this movie interesting because it looks at illegal immigration from America's War on Terror perspective. The direction and screenplay are both really. Both the casting and acting are really good also, especially by Philip Seymour Hoffman in his vary last performance. All in all I would give this five out of a possible five stars.

Beyond the sentiment for Philip Seymour Hoffman, this is a movie that should not have allowed its actors to use accents they cannot replicate.Rachel McAdams attempted accent was "especially terrible" as it switched from english, to American, to some kind of eastern European, to even a Hebrew accent. Even PSH's accent switched around constantly throughout the movie. It was unbearably fake and incredibly hard to watch and take the actors seriously.I shut it off halfway through. the Fakeness was overwhelming.

"A Most Wanted Man" is a film most people need to see. I did not intend to write a review, I was saving my time and energy to do that for "The Awful Truth" (1937. However I was so impressed with this movie that I felt compelled to write a few lines encouraging others to catch this intelligent, adult and engrossing piece of film-making. I will dispense with the plot. Why? You can get that on IMDb. What I want to write about is this: "A Most Wanted Man" is a mature movie and I use that expression as the highest form of a compliment. It is thoughtful, well crafted, smartly constructed and shrewdly paced, building to a shattering finale (The whole film leads to this devastating ending and is worth staying with to experience). John Le Carre' wrote the book the movie is based on and helped to produce. Philip Seymour Hoffman heads an incredibly talented cast-his performance alone is worth watching the film. I know he was facing some personal demons while filming-he doesn't allow them to interfere with his craftsmanship A fitting role to say goodbye with and I am grateful. If for nothing else than to pay respects to Mr. Hoffman, please catch this film

Here's an espionage thriller you can sink your teeth into, but better stay attentive because the foreign characters and names can derail the distracted viewer pretty quickly. The story sets up a quandary as to the true character of Issa Karpov (Grigoriy Dobrigin), is he a terrorist or someone who wants to renounce his heritage and simply live a peaceful life? What gives the picture it's resonance is the conflicting methods between German and American intelligence authorities and how much leeway they'll give Karpov to lead them to an even bigger fish in the terrorist network. Double crossed by both the German intelligence chief Mohr (Rainer Bock) and his American counterpart Martha Sullivan (Robin Wright), Gunther Bachmann (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is ruthlessly blindsided in what would have been a successful operation. It's all in the eye of the beholder ultimately, as making the world a safer place doesn't have a normal set of rules.