The director and Tom Cruise saw Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and thought to themselves "what a cool, intricate kind of movie... wish it had BRAIN-Numbingly long, unsubtle 'action' set pieces every 10 mins throughout.... then it would be sweeet!"
If you like your films to be excessively polished, style beats substance, ostentatious & overchoreographed affairs to the point of being cartoonish then look no further...
This is a B-movie in a high production value overcoat.
Sure, but the same could be said of many other movies, even ones in the IMDb Top 250. (Examples: The Avengers and any recent superhero movie, James Bond movies, 300, Sin City, Kill Bill, Avatar, The Usual Suspects, Kick-Ass, Interstellar, Total Recall remake, Exodus: Gods & Kings, Star Wars and sequels, Star Trek and sequels, etc.)
By the way, what did this movie have to do with Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy? I spotted references and homages to many other movies, but not to that one. (or were you talking about the TV-mini-series from 1979?)
(Yeah, both movies had Simon McBurney... but what else?)
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Keiko Matsui & Carl Anderson - "A Drop of Water"
http://youtu.be/kPUENUUuqSk
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7 years ago
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yurenchu
7 years ago
Personally I wouldn't mind at all if the M:I movies would focus less on action and more on an intricate noir-ish spy plot with trickery, intrigue and lots of suspense. That's why I like the first M:I movie the most (even though I understand that its plot spat right in the face of fans of the original TV-series, by making Mr. Phelps the villain of the movie). But alas! that's not where the producers chose to take the franchise.
However, even if they'd do that, the M:I movies would still be escapist fantasies and not be meant as (critical or uncritical) commentaries on society, politics or whatever. Their goal is merely to provide non-complicated, feel-good entertainment to an as-wide-as-possible audience. That's why the villain is always some rogue, lone-wolf person (or fringe organization) that every audience can regard as "bad", regardless of the audience's nationality, social class, political affiliations, etc.
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