Powerful

hyped garbage

best movie i've ever seen.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

THE JIGSAW MAN is an unremarkable spy drama of the 1980s that manages to be boring rather than thrilling, routine rather than intriguing. It doesn't help that it has no suspense whatsoever, it just goes through the motions throughout and veers into silliness on more than one occasion. Terence Young directs for the penultimate time in his career and is a long way from his glory Bond days of the 1960s here. Michael Caine is the miscast protagonist, a Russian spy who undergoes facial surgery in order to go undercover back in Britain once his cover is blown. An extraordinary cast of famous faces propel the story along, but you can't help find them more than a little wasted. Laurence Olivier is the handler, Robert Powell a fellow agent, and Susan George doesn't seem to have aged a day since STRAW DOGS. Charles Gray delivers an impeccably pompous turn while Vladek Sheybal, Michael Medwin, David Kelly, and Anthony Dawson do little more than provide mildly interesting cameos.

I saw this movie with my girlfriend, now wife, in 1984. Being the only two people in the theater on the second day of the movie should have given us a clue but that fact only really made sense when we left the theater 45 minutes later, well before the end. Expecting a decent thriller, Michael Caine worthy, we couldn't grasp the fact that this movie made it into the cinema in the first place! Of course I was 20 year younger then and i have seen some very, very bad movies since but none of them made the impression "The Jigsaw Man" did! Since that day my wife and I qualify bad, boring movies as "Even The Jigsaw Man was better". This movie has played a major part in our movie-viewing life for the last 20 years as THE "Bad Movie Benchmark".

This is probably the worst film I've ever seen. Though it seems to be a thriller, I spent the first twenty minutes of it thinking it was a comedy à la Leslie Nielsen; then I realised it didn't mean to be funny. The lines give the word "poor" a new sense. Cheap. I watched it on a coach trip, and contributed to make the trip rather miserable.

This movie is interesting. It is very hard to follow, but after seeing it two or three times, it comes. A very well defined star-studded cast but the movie is not what you'd expect it to be. Other than that, this movie would be good to watch if you like action, politics or just want to kill time.