Our Kind of Traitor (2016)

Fresh and Exciting

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Absolutely the worst movie.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Our Kind of Traitor is a solid but dull film with a lot of foreign location shooting but it is also rather predictable.I understand that some of the people who worked on the BBC television series The Night Manager also worked in this film. Whereas the long form television series managed to maintain its tension and had several well staged set pieces throughout its running length. This was lackluster.Perry (Ewan McGregor) a lecturer and his wife Gail (Naomie Harris) a lawyer are on holiday in Marrakesh. Perry is invited to party with Dima (Stellan Skarsgård) a brash Russian who is really a financier for a Russian mobster.Dima asks for Perry's help to save his family by becoming a MI6 informant as he has information on British financiers and politicians who have laundered money for the Russian underworld. Perry needs to contact a sympathetic MI6 agent.It is well acted especially by Skarsgård but it all feels rather restraint.

What lengths would you go to in order to save your family?Would you deliver a memory stick to the MI6 if a stranger asked you to?Our Kind of Traitor poses these and more questions in the adaptation of a John LeCarre novel. Ewan McGregor, Stellan Skarsgard, and Damian Lewis are the three major leads.The movie was enjoyable if a little unbelievable at times.

This is a proper screen adaptation of a John le Carre novel. If you're looking for a film to watch or rent, this is a good one. It tells the story of an ordinary British couple who, while on holiday, get caught up in a drama involving a member of the Russian mafia. This follows them after the holiday, and it turns into a terrifying adventure.I thought the movie was gripping. There were many scenes that had me at the edge of my seat. The scenes were set in various locations around Europe and the rest of the world. I disagree with those who say the plot developments were not credible.I think this movie is a little under-rated with it's current IMDb score. It's worth about 7.5.

I like a good spy film so I thought I would give this film a watch and as you can probably tell by the summary I found this film incredibly boring as dull. The premise of this film sees a married couple on holiday get approached by a Russian gangster who wants him and his family moved to England to be protected in exchange for secrets. Ewan McGregor plays a professor in the film that is approached by this gangster and he does an alright job in this film. He gives as good a performance as he can but his character is just so dull, there is nothing interesting about him in this film and I will be surprised if you end up caring about him in this film. Stellan skaarsgaard plays the Russian gangster in this film and his performance is very mixed, overall I thought he did an alright job but at times he is just so over the top and cartoony with allot of his performance. Damian Lewis plays the British agent in charge of this investigation and he gives the best performance In this film. I thought he added quite a bit of depth to his character in this film and I liked his line delivery as well. There are times where he comes across as over the top but he overall overcomes it and gives a decent performance. Naomi's Harris plays McGregor's wife and I think she was pretty miscast in this film, her chemistry with McGregor is just nowhere to be seen and some of her line delivery is extremely awkward especially when she has to swear. The story in this film is so convoluted and confusing that you really won't have a clue what is going on and why it is happening. Nothing about this story is interesting and you will not care enough to try and figure out what is really going on. The script has some pretty decent over the top humour in in that will actually make you chuckle in this film, but the dramatic dialogue just falls so short that as mentioned before doesn't help these characters at all. The style of this film is painfully boring, The films pacing will just add to this films flaws and make it just hard to care about. Overall I don't think anybody should watch this film because it is so boring and just not worth the 2 hours of time.