Saw Tinker Tailor earlier today or yesterday for the first time.
It was okay. Just okay. For a movie that had Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy, and Colin Firth in it and was a spy movie I expected more or better yet I expected something else for the most part so I guess that was a bit on me. Gave me a Downton Abbey feeling with the mood/pacing of it all.
Given the location being England it'd be better to say this film was quaint. It's one of those quiet films. It had all the 2nd guessing, shady double agents, the tense but short spying scenes, and the overall complexity of what a spy movie entails but it's clear it was not going for the action part yet at the same time it avoided any of the bueracratic stuff and really stuck to the core of the premise throughout. Gotta pay attention and you'll probably have to watch twice to be sure who was who name wise (I had to wait for credits to keep all the names mentioned straight cuz at a key point it got confusing). At points it was pretty depressing when you learn a little more about Oldman's character and Hardy's character's storyline. In the end it leaves you thinking that life is not something you'd want or even what the main character wants given the position he has in the end, really one of those callings dealing with doing what you think is right and duty and all that.
