Spooks: The Greater Good (2015)

Too much of everything

People are voting emotionally.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

A decent spy film, but not the best around. Many features of the film are just okay, like the cinematography and shots. Not many creative shots and it should be more creative with them.However, I did enjoy most of the plot despite being a little confused. I am aware the film is based on a show, but never seen it before. The film manages to get you aware of the characters without seeing the series before, so this is another positive of the film.Some of the acting is decent like Kit Harington and Peter Firth. The villain is very minimal in the film, so there is not much to say about him. Some twist and turns in the plot which is good, but can sometimes get confusing. Another film to just watch on Netflix or on a DVD but worth seeing once.

I had this running all the way through to the end because one of the girls likes the game of thrones kid. The movie looks pretty good at first, James Bond-y with a high tech control center. They apparently have super copters and vehicles, some multi-million dollar mission underway. Turns out they're transporting a big name terrorist in a ... van. Crooks stop it with motorcycles. okay right. Couldn't fly him in one of the copters? They threaten a lady, terrorist goes free. 30 people in the control room and actual mission transport is a single van on a rush hour highway. For the next hour, lots of chasing the bad guy, clumsy romantic scenes, boring dialogue. Somebody 'wrote' it, somebody green-lit it. Shame on you.

Indian director Bharat Nalluri (Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Tsunami: The Aftermath, The Crow: Salvation, and episodes of the original television version of MI5 from which this film is adapted) has created a fine 'extended version' of the MI-5 series as written by Jonathan Brackley, Sam Vincent, and David Wolstencroft. One of the reasons the film works well is the competent set of actors who manage to make this rather meandering story hold together and offer enough back stories of each character to make them credible.When a terrorist (Elyes Gabel) escapes custody during a routine handover, Will Holloway (Kit Harrington) must team with disgraced MI5 Intelligence Chief Harry Pearce (Peter Firth) to track him down before an imminent terrorist attack on London. Or to be more precise, MI5 personnel are caught up in a traffic jam in London while escorting the CIA's most wanted terrorist to an arranged CIA handover point, when he is suddenly rescued by armed men on motorbikes. Harry Pearce, the head of Counter-Terrorism at MI5 is blamed for the terrorist escaping. Especially as Harry disappeared shortly after the incident. An ex-agent, Will Holloway, and protégé of Harry's is recalled by MI5 to assist in finding and bringing Harry in. However Harry has disappeared for a reason. Certain that there is a traitor in a senior position in MI5, he enlists the somewhat reluctant Will to help him in uncovering the rat or rats concerned.The action is fast and hard and very cleverly captured by cinematographer Hubert Yaczanowski. The large cast of characters includes Larissa Kouznetsova, Laura Pulver, Tim McInnerny, Jennifer Ehle, David Harewood, Tuppence Middleton, and the above mentioned Kit Harrington, Elyes Gable, and Peter Firth. For the popular idiom of spy thrillers this film stands its own – and is much better than many of the same genre.

This Spy-Action Thriller film for me, enters the top 50 rubbish films of the last decade. It just could not have been any slower, brutal acting, incorrect character to actor placements, wafer thin story line. I mean seriously, who approves budgets for these movies? If you want a Movie that would have better placed as a series, then this film might just be for you.I reached a point of skipping the Movie forward in blocks about 3rd way into it. Would not recommend this film even in DVD format, no wonder it appeared and disappeared off screen so quickly. Promoters have again done an impetuous job here advertising and portraying film greatness when in fact the film itself demonstrates the opposite. Shockingly the IMDb rating is higher than 50% for this movie, I am shocked... Did a lot of people rate incorrectly?From me, Stay clear or prepare to Yawn.