Today starts Susanna White’s Thriller Our Kind of Traitor in the cinema. Ewan McGregor stars as a respectable Englishman who is involved by accident in the machinations of British intelligence. Read here what the critics have to say about the John le Carré adaptation.
The Englishman Perry Makepeace (Ewan McGregor) and his girlfriend Gail (Naomie Harris) want as we enter into a traitor during a vacation in Marrakech their ailing relationship back upwind. In a tennis game, they learn the charismatic Russian Dima (Stellan Skarsgård), who invites them to a “small party”. The party turns out to be sprawling festival where champagne flows in streams and shady types to adorn themselves with precious prostitutes. Also Dima outs himself in front of the unsuspecting couple as boss of a European-wide money laundering syndicate and member of the Russian Mafia. But he wants to get out and asks the two to help. They should pass a USB stick with highly explosive dates and names to the British secret service, so Dima and his family is granted asylum in England. Otherwise, they are threatened with execution by the Mafia. Perry gets involved in the deal, and thus underestimates the consequences for himself and his partner. When they want namely handed over the data to the secret service, the MI6 agent Hector Meredith (Damian Lewis) is aware of them and involved the two further and further into a power play between good and evil.
director Susanna White’s Our Kind of Traitor is based on the novel of the famous spy author John le Carré, published of 2010. For the filming of the strong substance White proved a good hand and took a strong cast into the boat. Thus it has been able to score points in both the German and international critics.
As always, first the hard facts to Our Kind of Traitor:
- 62 community ratings
with an average of 5.8 - 7 critic reviews, with an average of 6.4
- 6 reviews and 6 comments
- 0 x favorite movie and 0 x hate film
- 211 flags, 4 are not interested
This is what the German critic to Our Kind of traitor:
Jörg Schoening Spiegel online praises the classic format and especially the appearance of the exciting, stringently told thriller in which Ewan McGregor old British virtues gives a fresh face:
like Susanne Bier, which sat in their le Carré miniseries the Night Manager on the glamor of secret, Susanna White is the rapidly changing scenes of her film, ranging from brightly lit Arsenal London Arena to dark eye makeup Alpine peaks, attractive show values. In the Cinemascope panoramas of top cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle (Slumdog Millionaire) they come to their best advantage. Contrast
criticized Burkhard Müller of the Süddeutsche that traitors like us despite cooler attitude and groovy act of cynicism missing:
in a word, le Carré thriller suffers from a woeful lack of cynicism. Where please be here space for the titular traitor, even “Our Kind of Traitor”? The good and the bad are distributed in a completely unambiguous way. The evil that the Russian mafia, their British complicity from financial and policy and incompetent, lazy, pedantic bureaucracy; the good Hector, Perry and the repentant Dima – a by moralistic standpoint very boring event
For Alexander Jodl of cinema counts Susanna Whites le Carré adaptation to the successful implementations, it raises above all the strong cast forth. :
[...] watch this ensemble of highly competent mimes the game is simply a pleasure: Ewan McGregor, Damian Lewis, Stellan Skarsgård, Naomie Harris … a single lift out is not at the closed theater performance really possible.
However, he also points out that Our Kind of Traitor not an action movie, but primarily a spy story is:
Action fans will always attract longer faces in the existence of 107 minutes. “Our Kind of Traitor” is a spy thriller purest water: Secrets / disinformation betrayal / honor, action / reaction: These are themes that are used to juggling here virtuoso in exquisite images and atmospherically dense scenes. Life / death already well. . But not via choreographed superlative Action
This is what the US critics to Our Kind of Traitor:
Gary Goldstein of the LA Times called traitors like we as a well-crafted and superbly played le Carré -Implementation, but is lacking in dramaturgical explosive: follow
relocation, murder and a fascinating cat-and-mouse game, however, without much action or chaos. This reluctance would be admirable if the pragmatic screenplay by Hossein Amini would have placed the focus more on Perry and Gail’s crumbling relationship, rather than let fade their problems in the wonderfully recorded scenery.
Bilge Ebiri of Village Voice noted that the story first as a Suspsense thriller à la Hitchcock reads, but then more is to sober agent thriller mainly by its lead actor Ewan McGregor to voltage wins:
The per se rather reactive Perry is not very captivating. He is the typical protagonist of a spy story. But McGregor gives the role depth. He is thinking of his character in a wonderful way represent: His sharp, penetrating eyes and thin lips seem forever alternating between a grin and a grimace.
For Peter Travers of Rolling Stone, however, it is primarily Stellan Skarsgård and Damian Lewis, give the history buoyancy and for which he would have wanted more playing time:
What hurts, is that Skarsgard and Lewis must sit on the back seat, while another couple more game time is allowed. want to without McGregor or Harris criticize, the two are excellent performers, but they do not manage to keep us so in breathing, as required by the story.
Next is Travers compares to Susanne Bier le Carré -Adaption The Night Manager ago. Against the traitors could not quite exist as we do, however, manage Susanna White it anyway to bring the reaction well on the stage, while polishing up with their own trademark.
Conclusion to Our Kind of Traitor:
Our Kind of Traitor is literally spy movies, as it appears in the book. Dramaturgical weaknesses makes the continuous occupation of brilliant betting, but the story could one or the other to sober and conservative therefore come.
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