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A Most Wanted Man ist ein britischer Spionagethriller des Regisseurs Anton Corbijn aus dem Jahr Er basiert auf dem gleichnamigen Roman Marionetten. Bernhard Schütz, Actor: A Most Wanted Man. Bernhard Schütz was born on February 24, in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany. Nina Hoss was born on July 7, in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. She is an actress, known for Phoenix (), A Most Wanted Man () and. Filmkritik zu A Most Wanted Man. Vom Beobachten der Beobachter beim Beobachten: Anton Corbijn erzählt in seinem. A Most Wanted Man auf IMDB. Score: 7 des A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg, where he gets caught in the international war on terror. Bilder, Inhalt, Synopsis, Beschrieb, Trailer zum Film A Most Wanted Man. /db_data/movies/mostwantedman/scen/l/t love-is- min. IMDB-Rating: / Gratis A Most Wanted Man in der ARTE Mediathek anschauen (IMDb 6,8/. Hier habe ich wieder einen Film für euch: „A Most Wanted Man“.
Durch die Nutzung von Mein-Deal. Schnäppchen Chat. Philip Seymour Hoffman 6. Titelvarianten A Most Wanted Man. Marianne Graffam. Mark Schmal. Editing: Claire Simpson. Emilia Schüle Instagram angemeldet werden! Seine zurückhaltende Herangehensweise, mit dem Augenmerk auf intensiver Beobachtung und langfristiger Resultate, geht nicht konform mit einer Welt, die von Geheimdiensten schnelle und effiziente Prävention im Umgang mit Terrorverdächtigen erwartet. User-Login Kostenlos Registrieren. Actually a counter-intelligence agent. He's involved with a Chechen immigrant who has been tortured. There's money going from Hamburg to terrorists, but no one knows how this money gets there.
Somehow the Chechen is involved. On and on it goes, with the German police opposing Günther, the CIA opposing Günther, and everyone betraying everyone else.
Günther is burned out and, essentially, has no life other than being a spy. As far as we can see, he never takes time off, he is interested in nothing other than work, and he has no friends and no colleagues he can trust.
Hoffman portrays this part perfectly. No one could have done it as well. However, it will work just as well on the small screen.
No scuba shots, no mountain skiing shots--this isn't James Bond. If you know what to expect--gritty shots of Hamburg, Germany--you won't be disappointed, and the movie will work for you.
FilmMuscle 4 September Guantanamo Bay, contrary to majority belief, isn't only holding convicted terrorists but those innocent men accused of such turpitude as well.
Wrongfully marking, such institutions have afforded authorities the ability to aggressively interrogate and brutally torture so much as a suspect.
A Most Wanted Man chillingly manifests the terrifying degree to which intelligence organizations are desperately willing to go in order to identify their targets and extract imperative information.
In this case, a man named Issa Grigoriy Dobrygin is that target—a former detainee of both a Russian and Turkish prison, now on the run as an innocent man who's being unjustifiably chased—and seeks the assistance of a lawyer Rachel McAdams to safely escape the intimidating clutches of whatever intelligence agency.
The late Phillip Seymour Hoffman plays a spy who operates from a smaller, independent bureau that's significantly less forceful and antagonizing than the more powerful ones surrounding this prey, but still has its wide-open eyes fixed on Issa and the exact reason behind his illegal emigration to Hamburg, Germany as a Muslim.
As to expect from an Anton Corbijn film, this thriller is slower and more deliberate than most but yet definitely more absorbing and exciting than 's The American.
Anyway, what commences as a careful study of the crisis numerous shots of Hoffman's character smoking in a darkly-lit vehicle and those of activity in mosques or Issa's movement around the city quickens its pace as the stakes are finally realized and the endgame becomes clearer.
From there on out, constant frustration and tension is totally expected from the audience as competing forces in the midst of the war on terror— all found in the grayer areas of principle rather than the black-and- white—vie for the upper hand.
The rest of the cast features the likes of Willem Dafoe a banker who's connected to Issa through family friend relations , Robin Wright a CIA agent , and Daniel Brühl working alongside Hoffman as a computer-savvy agent.
Hoffman's performance should absolutely be recognized once the end of the year approaches, again proving that he never phones it in even when we're discussing a YA franchise like The Hunger Games.
His character here is both confident in his path yet cautious at the same time, blurring our view to determine whether he's more compassionate or relentlessly unforgiving like the other agents.
As a result, she's smart albeit vulnerably frightened but only human at the same time. In addition, the cinematography is very suiting and noteworthy—a bluish hue accompanies a substantial portion of the film as the itty-bitty details of the environment are forced to stick out everything kept in suspense.
Everything is visualized solemnly and unhurriedly, and the filmic look returns as the standard for spy thrillers. A subtle musical score gives an additional edge of anticipation to the narrative as the twists and turns emerge and the complexity of the subject matter deepens.
Now, if the climax wasn't as explosive and wholly satisfying as it was, the rest of the film in comparison would've appeared a little too meandering and eventless for most tastes.
However, the subject matter and thematic material of the picture are unfortunately incredibly relevant in this day and age and the unpredictability of the story itself will ensue to the very last scene, therefore making this tale a mature compelling and provocative viewing of our modern world—the anguish and trepidation that has devoured us and confused our set of ethics.
Greetings again from the darkness. The more you've read and seen these, the more you are prepared for this latest. Secrets and misdirection abound.
Traps are set, and sly maneuverings are pre-planned. As if all that weren't enough, how about another mesmerizing performance from the late Philip Seymour Hoffman?
He is a master at the top of his craft here. Sure, maybe the German accent is a bit distracting at first, but it was necessary because movie audiences needed a constant reminder that he is not playing an American!
I cannot explain how this chain-smoking, mumbling schlub can so dominate a scene and disappear into a character, but Hoffman most certainly does both.
The only miscast is Rachel McAdams as rich girl turned terrorist sympathizer. Parts of the score were excellent - the droning, ominous piano notes.
The composer was Herbert Gronemeyer, a German rock star you'd never know from the score. This is a delicious, challenging look at international spies and how one never knows where they fall on the food chain There's not very many movies I've seen in the past year that measure up as well as A Most Wanted Man.
Granted, I've seen a lot of fun or interesting films that I definitely enjoyed, but this one really hits the mark in a way that others didn't.
It transcends being entertaining and becomes its own sort of enigma. But I don't want to give the impression that it's hard to understand, because it certainly isn't.
The plot is easy to follow once you get used to the German accents , and each character has their own tendencies that you pick up on quickly, but I never quite knew what was about to happen.
I was kept on my toes, or on the edge of my seat rather, and I appreciated how unpredictable it was.
Set in Hamburg, Germany, it centers around a secret group of anti-terrorism operatives lead by Günther Bachmann Philip Seymour Hoffman.
After coming across a brutally tortured Chechen immigrant who turns up in the local Islamic community, and is laying claim to his father's corrupt fortune, they attempt to establish his true identity and motives.
And with the US taking close interest as well, it becomes a slow-burn thriller that unfolds with a huge amount of style and elegance.
It's the kind-of movie you'd want to curl up by the fireplace and watch on a cold December night. Hoffman who is never not smoking a cigarette in this delivers one of the best performances in his career, rivaling his role in Capote.
And the direction by Anton Corbijn is outstanding, giving it a sharp and neat feel that carries throughout. The more I think about it, the more I like it.
It's a definite must-see. I caught this movie at the Century Napa Valley Theater they have a wine bar It's terrific. A story about German spooks in Hamburg Mohamed Ata's launch pad setting a trap for a suspected terrorist financier, and not a single shot is fired, no one is killed, no dead bodies, no impossible martial arts acrobatics and no "amazing" shots of bullets frozen in mid air.
In other words, an actual story via the maestro John le Carre. Philip Seymour Hoffman is over the top as the head spook. I'm sure going to miss him.
Not a single Brit or Aussie and Germans only in supporting roles. Another reason it's a real one-off. Check it out! KWiNK 5 October Before anyone gets mad: I am well aware that this is Philip-Seymour Hoffman's last completed film - which was actually the reason for me to go see it.
And he is good. Meaning, by the standards of most other actors he is GREAT, but by PSH-standards its a pretty run-of-the- mill role that does not call for a great performance and Hoffman plays it like that: A neat little movie experience in Germany that came along and that he probably did not take too seriously, obviously not suspecting that it would be his final starring role.
And he does well when you compare it to Willem Dafoe's performance, which he apparently took very seriously. At times Dafoe seems to hinge on the verge of overacting, at least when compared to the other actors and his surroundings.
But the real trouble, as I said, is the story. It starts out as an espionage thriller focusing on the question whether Issa, a Chechen Muslim having entered Germany illegally, has come as a terrorist and is planning on meeting fundamentalists or other radical elements and maybe blow something up.
Slowly the focus then shifts without ever clarifying that Bachmann Hoffman and his team no longer suspect Issa to be dangerous, but somehow they start acting like they have come to that conclusion.
The focus keeps shifting and in the end you realize the movie was about something totally different all along which it didn't stress.
Because it is something that Bachmann would have had to stress and he is not the kind of character who goes on tantrums over things, so it is realistic but makes the storyline seem a little crooked.
Add to that that around the middle the team decides for a course of action that seems drastic at first but then ends up slowing the entire movie down a bit.
For about ten to twenty minutes the whole premise just seems to float and not go anywhere. I felt bored for a while before the pace picked up again.
As a last concern: Rachel McAdams just doesn't belong here. This is not really a critique of her or her acting talents which are fine.
But while everybody else looks like the characters they play, she just looks like a Hollywood starlet who came to spice up an independent movie with some glamor.
Which is completely out of place. It doesn't help that we all but never see her character, who is supposed to be a lawyer, do anything lawyerly other than speak to Dafoe's rich banker on her client's behalf.
She is just an alien in this world of low-life agents and bureaucrats. What we end up with is a pretty okay movie with some great photography and interesting themes that are, however, not told all that stringently.
But if you came to enjoy Hoffman's last performance, you will get your opportunity to enjoy, even if it isn't his most outstanding work.
It still shows that the man was a genius on screen. By the way: If you see this with someone from Germany, prepare that they start giggling when they see "Michael", a government employee aiding Bachmann: The actor is Herbert Grönemeyer, a well-known and often ridiculed pop-singer in Germany who very rarely acts in movies.
Germans are primed to laugh at him trying to act as few remember his pretty well-done starring role in classic "Das Boot".
The plot hardly matters here; it's only a vehicle for exploring the dirty side of intelligence work and is complicated as a Swiss watch. Maybe the NSA revelations have you thinking twice about spywork?
The fact that we caught spying on our own allies, the Germans, adds a special relevance to this tale.
But the real appeal here is a LeCarre's dark, dark, dark worldview and b Hoffman's superb acting. He just tosses this role off, and is utterly convincing.
Just as gritty and dirty and with Richard Burton as Alec Leamus. Like Gunther Bachmann,Leamus was a worn-out, beat-up, used-up operative, and audiences of the time, entranced by the frivolities of James Bond, were rather shocked by the dose of reality he represented.
He is wonderful in the film and is surrounded by a solid cast, though not nearly as good as Hoffman. Similar to Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, the pace is moderate with almost no summer blockbuster action.
It's a wonderful pallet cleanser for anyone who enjoys a thriller and has already seen a bunch of the latest CGI showcases. Tinker Tailor is more difficult to understand than this movie as A Most Wanted Man weaves a fairly straight forward plot.
Some reviews I read before seeing the film had me thinking twice about reading the wikipedia plot synopsis before I went into the theater, but I ventured in without doing so and didn't have any trouble keeping up.
I'll also be happy to see it again on Blu-Ray in my home theater and will surely catch much more of the subtle nuances.
The scenes are beautifully shot, but don't require an IMAX sized screen to enjoy. Warning: Spoilers. The titular character is no character at all and his story is pretty much a dead end.
He is a Chechen who arrives in Hamburg illegally and covertly. He has been to hell and back and as you would expect he bears both the emotional and physical scars of his past, which he relates small snippets of.
However, none of this has much impact on the story. His father is of dubious character and so he then suddenly decides he wants no part in the money after all.
We then turn our attention to the money being offered to a known terrorist financier unwittingly by the Chechen so that the German Secret Service can use this to lead them to the highest echelons of the organisation and their other financiers and money launderers.
This is the problem. At this stage I should mention I had a pee break half an hour in, so may have missed something crucial, but this is what troubled me: Gunther is screwed over by the rival department and by an American Spook, played by Robin Wright.
We know why the rival would, but why would she do this? Also, given the relevance of the subject material in today's news, there is a surprising lack of exploration of the political context.
Compare this to Tinker Tailor, where dubious actions and motives were very clearly established and yet skilfully revealed and where there was a memorable bad guy.
A Most Wanted Man falls way short in this comparison. Although a period piece, Tinker Tailor feels more relevant to current affairs than this film.
The Acting is excellent as is the Direction, even the Writing isn't at all bad, but the story itself may leave you underwhelmed. How does a society both protect its people from bad guys who want to destroy it - while safeguarding personal liberty, free speech, personal information, etc?
It is a current dilemma one which is very capably explored in A Most Wanted Man. The story line is easily understandable - a Chechnyan refugee is seeking asylum in Hamburg and he wants to rid himself of the millions of euros left to him by his corrupt Russian father.
German Intelligence Philip Seymour Hoffman ties him to a Muslim philanthropist who is a leading financier for a variety of charitable organizations who do good throughout the world.
But they PSH strongly believe that the philanthropist is also funding terrorism. This John le Carre novel is well presented with a terrific cast - a tension filled plot - and very compelling dialogue.
If you are looking for action, watch the latest Bruce Willis flick, this is all "between the temples" kind of stuff. The interesting tension is between the German Intelligence community PSH who want to parley this situation into more intelligence, so they can catch bigger fish; and the enforcement and political arms of the German government - who basically want to apprehend the suspected bad guys and make a media splash.
The story plays out in a edgy fashion - I won't tell you the ending. It is not necessarily what we want to see, but seems to reflect the realities of the current political situation in the world.
The saddest part of the film is the knowledge that this was Philip Seymour Hoffman's final film. Drugs, despair and depression have robbed us of one of the greatest acting talents of our time.
He truly was one of a kind - I feel cheated by his leaving. If you see it, and I hope you do, you must watch the special features - the interview with John le Carre.
Right after watching his interview I went in to speak to my wife and I heard a discussion on Fox which perfectly mimicked the topic and concerns he was expressing in the interview.
You know Fox's take on things - you need to watch the interview with Mr. I am not much of a "spy guy," but this one really captured me.
Now I have to decide which John le Carre novel I should read. Any ideas? Being a huge fan of Philip Seymour-Hoffman and having liked Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy so much, I was almost sure this was going to be a brilliant movie.
Maybe because of this expectation I was really, really disappointed. There is no nuance or subtleness and the characters are really flat without any depth.
Also the quality of the conversations which were great in Tinker Tailor are rubbish. The most powerful line in the movie is 'To make the world a safer place', how cheesy is that?
Bachmann is intelligent enough to manipulate everybody. He can make a boy betray on his father which may not be even the bad guy , but as magnificent as he is, he is dumb enough to not see the plans of the Americans blending in and screwing him up for the second time.
As brilliant as his team is, they cannot figure out that maybe, Issa stays at the apartment of the lawyer's brother. I could go on endlessly about things like this who just don't make any sense.
Issa has traveled across Europe to get his money, suddenly he doesn't want the money, and suddenly he does want the money. And all these very important moments in the plot just happen, we can't even see how.
Oh and of course the bracelet, dear god. Issa has been in prison for his whole life, being able to cope with extreme torture, travel across Europe and honoring his mother all along the way.
But when he meets up with a blond three times, he thinks, well just let me give you the most precious thing I own. Makes perfectly sense.
All the characters, all the dialogues are just very simple and basic. An intelligence guy who drinks and smokes a lot with a long legged assistant with a secret crush on him.
A female lawyer who hates her rich dad and travels by bike. The acting was okay though, if you can look through the cheesy dialogues.
I love a good, gritty, low-key thriller. This movie is not that. The John Le Carre characters are watered down and distilled to meaninglessness and boredom.
None of their motivations are discernible, and the different figures are mostly just there to look sinister, smoke, drink and walk around in Hamburg.
The complex Le Carre plot, shrunk to movie length, is completely incomprehensible. Pretty much nothing happens during the entire movie - and by nothing I don't just mean that there are no action scenes that would be okay but that there simply is no story.
The much lauded "final scene" is just as incomprehensible, meaningless and ridiculous as the rest of the movie.
Nothing in this film interested me at all, except a little bit Hoffman's final performance which, let's face it, is not that exceptional were it not for the fact that it was his final and, mostly, the interesting Hamburg and German scenery.
Don't see it, it's not worth it. This film can best be summed up as the sound of cigarettes burning, ice and whiskey clinking around in tumblers and Phillip Seymor Hoffman breathing laboriously.
Now, I love a quiet and gritty film but these sounds of the mundane become more significant than the plot. Critics want to love this film due to Hoffman's unfortunate passing but it lacks expression.
The climax is weak. Again, it relies on the textures and sounds of the mundane to create tension and suspense.
And this film doesn't end, it just stops. It only inspired conversations of ways to make it better. I'm sure that many will imply that people who do not favor this film are simply not sophisticated enough to understand its subtle complexity but in truth, this is just a boring movie that fails to deliver any thrills.
The picture concerns upon the world of secrets agents and spies in relation with Islamic terrorism and its funding sources. Thrilling and exciting movie about terrorism , spies and geopolitical issues.
The Chechen laying claim to his father's ill gotten fortune, both German and US security agencies take a close interest: as the clock ticks down and the stakes rise, the race is on to establish this most wanted man's true identity - oppressed victim or destruction-bent extremist?
Intrigue , suspense and extraordinary acting by an excellent cast. This interesting movie is a cold thriller plenty of suspense , mystery , tension and a little bit of violence.
The ultra-brisk editing and slick scenes movement leaves little time to consider some inadequacies. Philip Seymour Hoffman , at his last film , results to be the main attraction , he sustains interest in this tale of spies and terrorism.
Story's core is interesting and script is dense with information and drama. The use of thoughtful messages to add weight to an enjoyable subplot between the alleged terrorist and the young solicitor , though feels a little forced.
Exceptional main cast gives good acting as Philip Seymour Hoffman as Günther , Rachel McAdams ad a kind advocate in law and Grigoriy Dobrygin as a half-Chechen, half-Russian, brutally tortured immigrant turns up in Hamburg's Islamic community.
As with almost all evil acts the villain is money - Issa has come to inform his father's best friend, banker Abdullah Homayoun Ershadi that the money he is to inherit must be given to charities Issa vehemently disapproved of his father's ill-gotten gains.
As the clock ticks down and the stakes rise, the race is on to establish this most wanted man's true identity - oppressed victim or destruction-bent extremist?
A MOST WANTED MAN explores the dirty side of intelligence work complicated by counterspying and is a contemporary, cerebral tale of intrigue, love, rivalry, and politics that prickles with tension right through to its last desperately surprising scene.
Philip Seymour Hoffman is brilliant in this downbeat, distrusting, disheveled, difficult role and is well supported by a fine cast, including Willem Dafoe, the underused Mehdi Dehbi and Neil Malik Abdullah.
The film is choppy, the accents and all spoken dialogue is rather difficult to follow, but the impact this anti-spying statement makes is well worth the time invested.
Le Carre? What's not to like? The film runs 2 hours and 1 minute, and for 2 hours I held on to that hope. Unfortunately in that last minute the lights come on and, well, there's a lot not to like.
For starters, the "man" is an enigma throughout the four day narrative. We know he's been in Russian then Turkish prison and he's been tortured.
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You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Edit Cast Cast overview, first billed only: Grigoriy Dobrygin Günther Bachmann Homayoun Ershadi Abdullah Mehdi Dehbi Jamal Neil Malik Abdullah Irna Frey Daniel Brühl Maximilian Vicky Krieps Niki Kostja Ullmann Rasheed Franz Hartwig Karl Martin Wuttke The Admiral Vedat Erincin Storekeeper Rainer Bock Dieter Mohr Derya Alabora Leyla Oktay Tamer Yigit Edit Storyline When a half-Chechen, half-Russian, brutally tortured immigrant turns up in Hamburg's Islamic community, laying claim to his father's ill gotten fortune, both German and US security agencies take a close interest: as the clock ticks down and the stakes rise, the race is on to establish this most wanted man's true identity - oppressed victim or destruction-bent extremist?
Edit Did You Know? Trivia When star Philip Seymour Hoffman appeared in a play in Hamburg about twenty years before starring in this film which shot in Hamburg, on both occasions Hoffman stayed at the city's famed Hotel Atlantic.
Hoffman who is never not smoking a cigarette in this delivers one of the best performances in his career, rivaling his role in Capote.
And the direction by Anton Corbijn is outstanding, giving it a sharp and neat feel that carries throughout. The more I think about it, the more I like it.
It's a definite must-see. I caught this movie at the Century Napa Valley Theater they have a wine bar It's terrific.
A story about German spooks in Hamburg Mohamed Ata's launch pad setting a trap for a suspected terrorist financier, and not a single shot is fired, no one is killed, no dead bodies, no impossible martial arts acrobatics and no "amazing" shots of bullets frozen in mid air.
In other words, an actual story via the maestro John le Carre. Philip Seymour Hoffman is over the top as the head spook. I'm sure going to miss him.
Not a single Brit or Aussie and Germans only in supporting roles. Another reason it's a real one-off. Check it out! KWiNK 5 October Before anyone gets mad: I am well aware that this is Philip-Seymour Hoffman's last completed film - which was actually the reason for me to go see it.
And he is good. Meaning, by the standards of most other actors he is GREAT, but by PSH-standards its a pretty run-of-the- mill role that does not call for a great performance and Hoffman plays it like that: A neat little movie experience in Germany that came along and that he probably did not take too seriously, obviously not suspecting that it would be his final starring role.
And he does well when you compare it to Willem Dafoe's performance, which he apparently took very seriously.
At times Dafoe seems to hinge on the verge of overacting, at least when compared to the other actors and his surroundings.
But the real trouble, as I said, is the story. It starts out as an espionage thriller focusing on the question whether Issa, a Chechen Muslim having entered Germany illegally, has come as a terrorist and is planning on meeting fundamentalists or other radical elements and maybe blow something up.
Slowly the focus then shifts without ever clarifying that Bachmann Hoffman and his team no longer suspect Issa to be dangerous, but somehow they start acting like they have come to that conclusion.
The focus keeps shifting and in the end you realize the movie was about something totally different all along which it didn't stress.
Because it is something that Bachmann would have had to stress and he is not the kind of character who goes on tantrums over things, so it is realistic but makes the storyline seem a little crooked.
Add to that that around the middle the team decides for a course of action that seems drastic at first but then ends up slowing the entire movie down a bit.
For about ten to twenty minutes the whole premise just seems to float and not go anywhere. I felt bored for a while before the pace picked up again.
As a last concern: Rachel McAdams just doesn't belong here. This is not really a critique of her or her acting talents which are fine.
But while everybody else looks like the characters they play, she just looks like a Hollywood starlet who came to spice up an independent movie with some glamor.
Which is completely out of place. It doesn't help that we all but never see her character, who is supposed to be a lawyer, do anything lawyerly other than speak to Dafoe's rich banker on her client's behalf.
She is just an alien in this world of low-life agents and bureaucrats. What we end up with is a pretty okay movie with some great photography and interesting themes that are, however, not told all that stringently.
But if you came to enjoy Hoffman's last performance, you will get your opportunity to enjoy, even if it isn't his most outstanding work.
It still shows that the man was a genius on screen. By the way: If you see this with someone from Germany, prepare that they start giggling when they see "Michael", a government employee aiding Bachmann: The actor is Herbert Grönemeyer, a well-known and often ridiculed pop-singer in Germany who very rarely acts in movies.
Germans are primed to laugh at him trying to act as few remember his pretty well-done starring role in classic "Das Boot".
The plot hardly matters here; it's only a vehicle for exploring the dirty side of intelligence work and is complicated as a Swiss watch.
Maybe the NSA revelations have you thinking twice about spywork? The fact that we caught spying on our own allies, the Germans, adds a special relevance to this tale.
But the real appeal here is a LeCarre's dark, dark, dark worldview and b Hoffman's superb acting. He just tosses this role off, and is utterly convincing.
Just as gritty and dirty and with Richard Burton as Alec Leamus. Like Gunther Bachmann,Leamus was a worn-out, beat-up, used-up operative, and audiences of the time, entranced by the frivolities of James Bond, were rather shocked by the dose of reality he represented.
He is wonderful in the film and is surrounded by a solid cast, though not nearly as good as Hoffman. Similar to Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, the pace is moderate with almost no summer blockbuster action.
It's a wonderful pallet cleanser for anyone who enjoys a thriller and has already seen a bunch of the latest CGI showcases. Tinker Tailor is more difficult to understand than this movie as A Most Wanted Man weaves a fairly straight forward plot.
Some reviews I read before seeing the film had me thinking twice about reading the wikipedia plot synopsis before I went into the theater, but I ventured in without doing so and didn't have any trouble keeping up.
I'll also be happy to see it again on Blu-Ray in my home theater and will surely catch much more of the subtle nuances. The scenes are beautifully shot, but don't require an IMAX sized screen to enjoy.
Warning: Spoilers. The titular character is no character at all and his story is pretty much a dead end. He is a Chechen who arrives in Hamburg illegally and covertly.
He has been to hell and back and as you would expect he bears both the emotional and physical scars of his past, which he relates small snippets of.
However, none of this has much impact on the story. His father is of dubious character and so he then suddenly decides he wants no part in the money after all.
We then turn our attention to the money being offered to a known terrorist financier unwittingly by the Chechen so that the German Secret Service can use this to lead them to the highest echelons of the organisation and their other financiers and money launderers.
This is the problem. At this stage I should mention I had a pee break half an hour in, so may have missed something crucial, but this is what troubled me: Gunther is screwed over by the rival department and by an American Spook, played by Robin Wright.
We know why the rival would, but why would she do this? Also, given the relevance of the subject material in today's news, there is a surprising lack of exploration of the political context.
Compare this to Tinker Tailor, where dubious actions and motives were very clearly established and yet skilfully revealed and where there was a memorable bad guy.
A Most Wanted Man falls way short in this comparison. Although a period piece, Tinker Tailor feels more relevant to current affairs than this film.
The Acting is excellent as is the Direction, even the Writing isn't at all bad, but the story itself may leave you underwhelmed.
How does a society both protect its people from bad guys who want to destroy it - while safeguarding personal liberty, free speech, personal information, etc?
It is a current dilemma one which is very capably explored in A Most Wanted Man. The story line is easily understandable - a Chechnyan refugee is seeking asylum in Hamburg and he wants to rid himself of the millions of euros left to him by his corrupt Russian father.
German Intelligence Philip Seymour Hoffman ties him to a Muslim philanthropist who is a leading financier for a variety of charitable organizations who do good throughout the world.
But they PSH strongly believe that the philanthropist is also funding terrorism. This John le Carre novel is well presented with a terrific cast - a tension filled plot - and very compelling dialogue.
If you are looking for action, watch the latest Bruce Willis flick, this is all "between the temples" kind of stuff.
The interesting tension is between the German Intelligence community PSH who want to parley this situation into more intelligence, so they can catch bigger fish; and the enforcement and political arms of the German government - who basically want to apprehend the suspected bad guys and make a media splash.
The story plays out in a edgy fashion - I won't tell you the ending. It is not necessarily what we want to see, but seems to reflect the realities of the current political situation in the world.
The saddest part of the film is the knowledge that this was Philip Seymour Hoffman's final film. Drugs, despair and depression have robbed us of one of the greatest acting talents of our time.
He truly was one of a kind - I feel cheated by his leaving. If you see it, and I hope you do, you must watch the special features - the interview with John le Carre.
Right after watching his interview I went in to speak to my wife and I heard a discussion on Fox which perfectly mimicked the topic and concerns he was expressing in the interview.
You know Fox's take on things - you need to watch the interview with Mr. I am not much of a "spy guy," but this one really captured me.
Now I have to decide which John le Carre novel I should read. Any ideas? Being a huge fan of Philip Seymour-Hoffman and having liked Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy so much, I was almost sure this was going to be a brilliant movie.
Maybe because of this expectation I was really, really disappointed. There is no nuance or subtleness and the characters are really flat without any depth.
Also the quality of the conversations which were great in Tinker Tailor are rubbish. The most powerful line in the movie is 'To make the world a safer place', how cheesy is that?
Bachmann is intelligent enough to manipulate everybody. He can make a boy betray on his father which may not be even the bad guy , but as magnificent as he is, he is dumb enough to not see the plans of the Americans blending in and screwing him up for the second time.
As brilliant as his team is, they cannot figure out that maybe, Issa stays at the apartment of the lawyer's brother. I could go on endlessly about things like this who just don't make any sense.
Issa has traveled across Europe to get his money, suddenly he doesn't want the money, and suddenly he does want the money.
And all these very important moments in the plot just happen, we can't even see how. Oh and of course the bracelet, dear god.
Issa has been in prison for his whole life, being able to cope with extreme torture, travel across Europe and honoring his mother all along the way.
But when he meets up with a blond three times, he thinks, well just let me give you the most precious thing I own. Makes perfectly sense. All the characters, all the dialogues are just very simple and basic.
An intelligence guy who drinks and smokes a lot with a long legged assistant with a secret crush on him. A female lawyer who hates her rich dad and travels by bike.
The acting was okay though, if you can look through the cheesy dialogues. I love a good, gritty, low-key thriller. This movie is not that.
The John Le Carre characters are watered down and distilled to meaninglessness and boredom. None of their motivations are discernible, and the different figures are mostly just there to look sinister, smoke, drink and walk around in Hamburg.
The complex Le Carre plot, shrunk to movie length, is completely incomprehensible. Pretty much nothing happens during the entire movie - and by nothing I don't just mean that there are no action scenes that would be okay but that there simply is no story.
The much lauded "final scene" is just as incomprehensible, meaningless and ridiculous as the rest of the movie. Nothing in this film interested me at all, except a little bit Hoffman's final performance which, let's face it, is not that exceptional were it not for the fact that it was his final and, mostly, the interesting Hamburg and German scenery.
Don't see it, it's not worth it. This film can best be summed up as the sound of cigarettes burning, ice and whiskey clinking around in tumblers and Phillip Seymor Hoffman breathing laboriously.
Now, I love a quiet and gritty film but these sounds of the mundane become more significant than the plot.
Critics want to love this film due to Hoffman's unfortunate passing but it lacks expression. The climax is weak. Again, it relies on the textures and sounds of the mundane to create tension and suspense.
And this film doesn't end, it just stops. It only inspired conversations of ways to make it better. I'm sure that many will imply that people who do not favor this film are simply not sophisticated enough to understand its subtle complexity but in truth, this is just a boring movie that fails to deliver any thrills.
The picture concerns upon the world of secrets agents and spies in relation with Islamic terrorism and its funding sources. Thrilling and exciting movie about terrorism , spies and geopolitical issues.
The Chechen laying claim to his father's ill gotten fortune, both German and US security agencies take a close interest: as the clock ticks down and the stakes rise, the race is on to establish this most wanted man's true identity - oppressed victim or destruction-bent extremist?
Intrigue , suspense and extraordinary acting by an excellent cast. This interesting movie is a cold thriller plenty of suspense , mystery , tension and a little bit of violence.
The ultra-brisk editing and slick scenes movement leaves little time to consider some inadequacies. Philip Seymour Hoffman , at his last film , results to be the main attraction , he sustains interest in this tale of spies and terrorism.
Story's core is interesting and script is dense with information and drama. The use of thoughtful messages to add weight to an enjoyable subplot between the alleged terrorist and the young solicitor , though feels a little forced.
Exceptional main cast gives good acting as Philip Seymour Hoffman as Günther , Rachel McAdams ad a kind advocate in law and Grigoriy Dobrygin as a half-Chechen, half-Russian, brutally tortured immigrant turns up in Hamburg's Islamic community.
As with almost all evil acts the villain is money - Issa has come to inform his father's best friend, banker Abdullah Homayoun Ershadi that the money he is to inherit must be given to charities Issa vehemently disapproved of his father's ill-gotten gains.
As the clock ticks down and the stakes rise, the race is on to establish this most wanted man's true identity - oppressed victim or destruction-bent extremist?
A MOST WANTED MAN explores the dirty side of intelligence work complicated by counterspying and is a contemporary, cerebral tale of intrigue, love, rivalry, and politics that prickles with tension right through to its last desperately surprising scene.
Philip Seymour Hoffman is brilliant in this downbeat, distrusting, disheveled, difficult role and is well supported by a fine cast, including Willem Dafoe, the underused Mehdi Dehbi and Neil Malik Abdullah.
The film is choppy, the accents and all spoken dialogue is rather difficult to follow, but the impact this anti-spying statement makes is well worth the time invested.
Le Carre? What's not to like? The film runs 2 hours and 1 minute, and for 2 hours I held on to that hope. Unfortunately in that last minute the lights come on and, well, there's a lot not to like.
For starters, the "man" is an enigma throughout the four day narrative. We know he's been in Russian then Turkish prison and he's been tortured.
And that's the whole back story, not in a nutshell but the whole seven course meal. And we learn nothing more about him whether he's guilty of anything or innocent of everything.
Nonetheless, Bachmann Hoffman , the German police, and American intelligence are all keenly interested in him and his purpose in Hamburg. A day or two later, Bachmann has discovered his very mundane purpose, which, naturally as there wouldn't be much story otherwise, fits in perfectly with his plans to turn a benevolent but dirty local Islamic philanthropist.
The police and Americans have other ideas - and that is the entire plot - not convoluted, subtle, nuanced, layered, or complex.
It's just a bureaucratic turf war that turns out badly maybe because apparently there is no higher authority in German intelligence to resolve things, other than this sloppy, chain smoking, drunk.
These narrative problems appear to originate in the book, if Amazon reviews are any guide, but are compounded by Corbijn's direction, which, just as in the tedious "The American", combines brilliant visual with lifeless, stereotyped characterization.
The acting is fine and while the camera frame is Hoffman's oyster, playing a sloppy, chain smoking, drunk is not exactly a challenge, nor, sadly, a stretch.
This was especially important because Germany is host to a sizable Muslim minority. Most of them went there to seek jobs and a new life but some, like Atta, had darker motives in mind.
Bachmann is a lonely, chain-smoking, hard drinking dedicated professional. The kind of man who lives alone in a dingy, dark apartment and suffers from insomnia.
He's a master of psychological manipulation: of his German underlings working for him and most noticeably his chief under-assistant, Irna Frey Nina Boss , his informants, the people he must pull into the action to get the job done his way, and the official German police whose duty it is to make sure another Mohamed Atta doesn't arise in their midst.
Bachmann also has a black mark on his career. The powers that be blame him for botching a espionage job in Beirut and for this he's been posted in Hamburg.
He's asked whether he considers this a downgrade, to which he laconically replies, "It depends whether you like Hamburg or don't like Hamburg. The first he's been following for some time: Mohammad Abdullah Homayoun Ershadi , a man who has been pushing pacifist Muslim charities and organizations and cooperation with the West.
But Bachmann suspects Abdullah has a soft spot for a terrorist organization, whose front is a shipping company headquartered in Cyprus, along with the good charities he promotes.
As Bachmann puts it, "A good man who has a little bad in him. Karpov seeks help from a Turkish couple, who introduce him to Annabel Richter Rachel McAdams , an attorney who wants to defend his rights.
The legitimate German authorities are hankering to pick up both Abdullah and Karpov, and Bachmann's doing his best to hold them at arm's length.
At first she seems friendly and on Bachmann's side. At a face-to-face meeting over drinks, she admits that on her orders one of her operatives messed up the Beirut job.
She apologizes for exposing Bachmann's operatives in the process, some of whom were tortured or murdered.
To which he asks, Did she ever wonder what exactly she was doing by giving her guy the go to make the leak and more important, why did she order such a thing?
To which she cheerfully replies with a snickering smile, "To make the world a safer place. The question for Bachmann is, Is Karpov a radical Islamist?
Or is he just a Chechen seeking refuge from his ordeal with the Russians, who tortured and beat him?
We soon learn Karpov has another, deeper reason for coming to Hamburg. His deceased father, a Russian naval officer who amassed a sizable fortune by racketeering and other unsavory activities, sequestered it in a Hamburg bank run by a man named Tommy Brue Willem Dafoe.
Karpov bears a letter signed by Brue's father, the former CEO of the bank, attesting to the account. On Karpov's behalf Richter makes contact with Brue and soon he meets up with Karpov.
Knowing this, Bachmann begins manipulating all three: Richter, Karpov, and Brue. Karpov he dismisses as harmless.
A confused young man who wants to live a clean and decent life. As he tells Richter, "You and I both know he's innocent.
The entire operation is set up and monitored by Bachmann's people. When Abdullah at Brue's bank makes a single change to his beneficiary list to include the terrorist shipping company, Bachmann has validated his idea, vindicated his reputation, and achieved his goal.
Or has he? Sullivan has tricked Bachmann. Just as she ordered her underling to betray Bachmann's people in Beirut, so she has betrayed him again by letting him think she supported his way of handling the situation and instead set up the German authorities to seize both Abdullah and Karpov.
On that note the movie ends. Espionage is a game with many angles and many opportunities for betrayal. His books are an outpouring of his thoughts.
They show the loneliness, the isolation, the difficulties for a spy of connecting at the personal level because whom you trust may not be trustworthy.
A person whose life is subjected to potential betrayal at all levels and who must also endure the threat of torture, and death.
It is not a pretty life and on most levels not a happy life. And it is certainly not a glamorous life. Dangerous yes, but not glamorous. He did a terrific job at portraying Günther Bachmann to a tee.
He possessed an incredible talent. I'm truly sorry he's gone. This is a delicious, challenging look at international spies and how one never knows where they fall on the food chain Looking for something to watch?
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