Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Naomi Harris but it seemed the males were not vert strong personalities. It was a decent rendering then again it seemed like a contract obligation by Le Carre towards what contract he currently has with what publisher. The action wasn't the problem as much as the sub plot was bare bones.. As many have stated a fairly predictable plot. For me it was akin to 'the Night Manager' then again perhaos tis was Le Carre 'borrowing' heavily from that script to flesh out a 6 episode series for Tom Huddleston, Hugh Laurie et. al..Daniel Lewis was at his best - controlled but believable. The best rendition of a Le Carre was the old 'Tinker Tailor Solider Spy' with Alec Guiness 'because' it had the luxury of stretching out the plot over 7 episodes nearly 40 years ago (1979).

*** May contain spoilers *** I have enjoyed many of John Le Carres books but I have not read this one yet. This film was excellent. The acting was very realistic and believable and the cinema-photography was very beautifully done. The story was very realistic apart from making the Russians the bad guys, although in the UK at present that is kind of obligatory. For those clever clogs who say the plot was too simple with no twist, there is the twist staring you in the face if your eyes are not wide shut.The scenario was very realistic and very relevant today in the UK.In recent years it has become apparent that our government does not believe in democracy and that it is owned by several criminal factions. The main faction is the military industrial complex and another is the middle eastern oil kingdoms. The CIA recruited Tim Osman - alias Osama bin Laden and Al-Quaeda was and is a wholly owned subsidiary of the CIA with the goal of spreading civil war to every country in the world and thereby increasing arms sales and reducing the population everywhere. Of course you could not possibly depict that story in a movie and so the Russian's become the patsy. I found it very ironic that some of this movies reviewers said that having ordinary people caught up in an espionage thriller was unbelievable. The reality is that the Hollywood superhero Bond / Vin Diesel type action man hero and the associated stories are pure fantasy fiction and that espionage by its very nature is usually conducted by non-descript ordinary people. We know from history that University Professors make up a disproportionate number of these.I found the film very tense. I was caught up in the lives of the characters and I thought it was great that the British couple dragged into the plot were having marital difficulties. It showed that two self-centred people caught up in the miseries of their own relationship bubble could do extraordinary things and that they were both decent moral people despite obvious past mistakes. While this may not be a daringly new concept, it forms the foundation of any stable society.So the real moral of the film is that while official flashy government agencies have the guns, helicopters and muscle bound action man personnel, it is up to the flawed everyday average person to actually save the day.

When it comes to John Le Carre film adaptation's there's sadly quite a large gulf that has developed between the great: Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy, the middle of the road: The Tailor of Panama and the lackluster: A Most Wanted Man and while last year with the overrated miniseries The Night Manager, Le Carre has found success, My Kind of Traitor is very much the lackluster Le Carre, with Susanna White's thriller failing to get the blood pumping.The good Le Carre novels and adaptation's find themselves mastering both suspense and layered plots and they're both elements amiss from White's film (and The Two Faces of January director and Drive screenwriter Hossein Amini's lifeless script) that never feels either believable enough or interesting enough to make use of a recognisable cast that all flounder with subpar material that fails to play to their individual strengths, while White who has made a career behind camera largely as a miniseries specialist, directs Le Carre's subpar material without an ounce of any real effort that hampers the film even more so.Centring around the largely chemistry free struggling couple of Ewan McGregor's Perry and Naomie Harris's Gail, who in the blink of an eye become friends with Stellan Skarsgård's Russian Mafia accountant Dima on a European relationship saving holiday, only to find themselves quickly entrenched in a government backed mission to save Dima and his family from the big bad's his looking to rat out, Our Kind of Traitor fails to make us believe things could transpire as they do and for a film of this ilk to be so uninvolving and tiresome with a lack of any true thrills and spectacle (other than some great scenery and crisp DOP work from the ever impressive Anthony Dod Mantle), no amount of cast saving would've helped this film feel like anything more than a glorified BBC event film.Wasting a cast that could and should be doing much more and bringing to life a Le Carre story that surely ranks amongst some of his most uninspired, Our Kind of Traitor may be of some joy to the authors fervent followers and those that count BBC productions amongst their yearly calendar highlights but for the rest of us there will likely be countless other thrillers both from cinemas and the small screen that are endlessly more memorable and engaging than this instantly forgettable and seen a million times before affair.1 ½ tennis matches out of 5

Sometimes you get into a situation without really doing anything. And then you have to ask yourself where to go from there. Something like this happens to Ewan McGregors character. Someone with a past, but also someone with morals. And someone who seems to be struggling with his life, so he may be welcoming whatever gets thrown at him.This is based on a novel which I haven't read, so I can't compare those two. I can tell you that the movie is more than suspenseful enough and it seems very much rooted in reality (of course heightened at certain points of the story). There are many obstacles and you may see a lot of things coming before they happen, but the movie is played very well and is more than decent enough to enjoy