just watch it!

Just perfect...

Beautiful, moving film.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

SPOOKS: THE GREATER GOOD is a big screen spin-off for the long-running British TV series about the adventures of agents working on behalf of MI-5. Peter Firth returns as the inimitable Harry and gets plenty of screen time, which fans will enjoy. The film also sticks closely to its small-screen origins and feels like an expanded TV episode throughout. Plot-wise, it's about the hunt for an Islamic terrorist played by the reliable Elyes Gabel, and similar to the Sean Bean flick CLEANSKIN, but better.The plot twists are surprising at times and the 'hunt the mole' plot is well-utilised. I'm a big fan of GAME OF THRONES, so seeing Kit Harington as the lead was fun for me, although slightly jarring what with him dressed in modern attire and all. Tuppence Middleton is also less irritating than she was in the ill-advised LADY VANISHES remake. Overall, I enjoyed this film, although I'll readily admit that it's no classic.

Indian director Bharat Nalluri (Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Tsunami: The Aftermath, The Crow: Salvation, and episodes of the original television version of MI5 from which this film is adapted) has created a fine 'extended version' of the MI-5 series as written by Jonathan Brackley, Sam Vincent, and David Wolstencroft. One of the reasons the film works well is the competent set of actors who manage to make this rather meandering story hold together and offer enough back stories of each character to make them credible.When a terrorist (Elyes Gabel) escapes custody during a routine handover, Will Holloway (Kit Harrington) must team with disgraced MI5 Intelligence Chief Harry Pearce (Peter Firth) to track him down before an imminent terrorist attack on London. Or to be more precise, MI5 personnel are caught up in a traffic jam in London while escorting the CIA's most wanted terrorist to an arranged CIA handover point, when he is suddenly rescued by armed men on motorbikes. Harry Pearce, the head of Counter-Terrorism at MI5 is blamed for the terrorist escaping. Especially as Harry disappeared shortly after the incident. An ex-agent, Will Holloway, and protégé of Harry's is recalled by MI5 to assist in finding and bringing Harry in. However Harry has disappeared for a reason. Certain that there is a traitor in a senior position in MI5, he enlists the somewhat reluctant Will to help him in uncovering the rat or rats concerned.The action is fast and hard and very cleverly captured by cinematographer Hubert Yaczanowski. The large cast of characters includes Larissa Kouznetsova, Laura Pulver, Tim McInnerny, Jennifer Ehle, David Harewood, Tuppence Middleton, and the above mentioned Kit Harrington, Elyes Gable, and Peter Firth. For the popular idiom of spy thrillers this film stands its own – and is much better than many of the same genre.

So this movie was goo, but it could have been better. For movies that have to do with spy organizations, there is so much that could be done with it but many of the movie makers tend to stick with similar generic stories. There really is not any originality to it that way, and it becomes repetitive.The thing that was most interesting with this is it leads a person to believe who the inside man betrayer is, but then it throws you off and leads you to the next agent. There was a MI-5 convoy that was taken down while transporting a highly classified wanted man. It was a set up to make the MI-5 look weak so that it would be dismantled and handed over to the C.I.A.So this movie was going back and forth leading to the potential snake in the group. It was to the point where lies could not be separated from the truth.

This film is so B-O-R-I-N-G it had to be British. So boring like the drizzle dreary bwitish weather itself. So boring I wrote this to fight off the insomnia attack while watching this turkey (and we all know the bwitish can't cook).What with the lines "what the bloody hell… ' each fulmination delivered with that repressed boarding school angst the top inbred upper class characters all have. They do have a black guy in there but he's such a coconut his massas probably don't even call him by name just whistle.No need for spoilers this turkey is well spoiled because it's about… surprise, surprise Arab terrorists. And not like Three Kings or The Siege or Traitor where the gray areas are used for brill dramatic effect.To make it appear somewhat original, you know what they did? Get this WASP on WASP competition! American CIA vs bwitish MI5. Too funny, I know the bwitish are pretty clueless bunch (I use to live there) but there is no competition folks it's been over since the US started using that drizzle dreary island as its largest aircraft carrier, over 30,000 US troops on British soil under American command. Uncle Sam runs things already. C'mon now MI5 it's over so stop embarrassing yourselves with this farce to stay independent while pottering around after naughty arabs with bombs.Sometimes a boring movie can be bearable with eye candy or a great backing track but not this lame duck. In the name of realism they used actors who look the part, that's inbred upper class twats from that diminishing gene pool who are not easy on the eye. And the backing track to this wooden chicken, is like intro to techno beats, you know the cheezy slow intro effects before the beats speed up.Woulda Coulda Shoulda worked if it was serious, and I mean serious in any way, seriously camp like James Bond (the boys at the club say you're not fooling anyone James), or a serious setting like the brilliant Hidden Agenda 1991, but then that's set in Ireland and too much for the BBC tea and biscuit brigade who need to believe their nanny state is taking care of them — yea right, tell that to the victims of their imperialist wars blessed by the worlds biggest welfare queen.If it's a TV spy series that's your bag, check out Homeland.