USA / Ireland, 2001. Directed by John Boorman. Pierce Brosnan, Geoffrey Rush, Jamie Lee Curtis, Brendan Gleeson, Leonor Varela, Harold Pinter.
Interesting thriller laced with satire and some wryly amusing moments from John Boorman and John Le Carre. With more than a passing resemblance to Graham Greene's Our Man In Havana (filmed by Carol Reed in 1959), this well-scripted film plays on many cinematic conventions regarding the shady world of espionage. In this it is helped enormously by the imaginative casting of Brosnan as the foul-mouthed, over-sexed Osnard, a kind of bastard son of James Bond. Brosnan looks as if he's enjoying himself enormously and must have relished the role. Equally Geoffrey Rush is terrific too, skillfully conveying the decency of his character behind the ex-con's bullshit. Footnote: Daniel Radcliffe's film debut, just prior to winning the Harry Potter role.
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