Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Name: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Mystery
Released: 2011-09-16
Duration: 127 min

How do you find an enemy who is hidden right before your eyes?

20112h 7mcritics 6.6/10

Drama Thriller Mystery

George Smiley, the aging master spy of the Cold War and once heir apparent to Control, is brought back out of retirement to flush out a top level mole within the Circus. Smiley must travel back through his life and murky workings of the Circus to unravel the net spun by his nemesis Karla 'The Sandman' of the KGB and reveal the identity of the mole before he disappears.

starring Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, John Hurt

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Read from 151 comments (98 from Reddit, 49 from Metacritic, 4 from TMDB reviews) — 27 of them described how it moves.

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Reddit26 read

“There are tense scenes, but no intense action. It follows the mundanity of spy work where one must untangle complex relationships and navigate secrecy to expose and eliminate a threat.”
mottman▲ 18about 0–100% inread it ↗
“the last episode of the BBC miniseries and while it is excellent”
Shooter_Q▲ 10about 75–100% inread it ↗
“the Christmas party: Prideaux is alone and evidently not having a good time; his eyes glow up when he sees Hayden, who clearly wants to join him but has to clumsily and embarassingly get away from Prideaux, as he needs to prioritize his double agent work and the party is his chance to be intimate with Smiley's wife. When Hayden turns, Priedeaux's face has an element of suspicion but he's primarily heartbroken.”
__Gripen__▲ 7about 75–100% inread it ↗
“the 6 cut makes a slow burning mystery a bit rushed in the end”
Accomplished-Act3556▲ 3about 75–100% inread it ↗

Metacritic30 read

“Story is very confusing and fails to get my attention the whole time”
ProfAmateurabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“at points so slow that I was waiting for the next scene”
joshwashereabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“Mostly you can piece them back together in the last 30 minutes”
s3ver14nabout 75–100% inread it ↗
“Twenty minutes in I gave up”
bob516about 0–15% inread it ↗

TMDB4 read

“it's worth it at the end”
r96skabout 75–100% inread it ↗
“The russians have placed a mole within the Circus (who is the british intelligence service, by the way). George Smiley (Gary Oldman), having been fired from the Circus, has now been rehired (secretly) to find the mole. He assembles his small team and begins to look into the matters. The possibilities are plenty, Percy (Toby Jones), Esterhase (David Dencik), Roy Bland (Ciaran Hinds) and Bill Haydon (Colin Firth). His old friend, Control (John Hurt), even suspected George himself of being the mole”
Kenneth Axel Carlssonread it ↗
“**Despite a great cast and good script material, the film is tiring, stagnant, a bit gray and boring to watch.** This film is a remake of an older film from 1973 (I haven't seen it yet, but I intend to), both of which are film adaptations of a spy novel that was written by John Le Carrée. Being the original story known for its quality and this film being an elaborate super production and with a cast full of established names, I was expecting a great film… but the truth is that I felt disappoi”
Filipe Manuel Netoread it ↗
“Many folks will remember the wonderful BBC adaptation of this John Le Carré story that featured the late Sir Alec Guinness as the measured and sagely "George Smiley" character. This time, this almost as superior adaptation places an on-form Gary Oldman in that role. What role? Well having just been pensioned off, he is re-recruited by "C" (John Hurt) to try and track down a KGB spy deep within the fabric of MI6. It's fair to say that, as this story starts to unfold, we discover there are plenty ”

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