Super-ruthless and uber efficient spy couple, Kathryn St. Jean (Cate Blanchett) and George Woodhouse (Michael Fassbender) are happily married, or so it seems, and working at the top of their collective games for MI6. When George receives word from a fellow spy that there's a mole in their department, he organises a dinner party for the five suspects that includes his wife and so begins a glorious, delightful cat-and-mouse game as George tries to work out who's trying to sell secrets to the Russians and things soon spiral out of control when he discovers his wife isn't being completely honest with him. As tensions mount and his friend, the whistle-blowing spy winds up dead, George realises he's been set up and with time running out he has to try one last desperate ploy to unmask the traitor.
Absolutely delightful from beginning to end, with a brilliant cast, a superb soundtrack from the always excellent John Holmes, this only comes undone in one aspect. There's no way you'll be able to guess who the spy is by the clues presented. This is a complex and gripping spy drama that is all the more impressive because it's just over one and a half hours.
So refreshing to see something so satisfyingly adult. Fassbender and Blanchett are exquisite in their roles and give measured and precise performances and a masterclass in acting. By god, we're being spoiled this year by some top notch acting and files in the shape of this and the also excellent Enclave.
Can't really fault this, beyond the complexity of the plot which robbed me of being able to work out who the spy was. But bloody hell I loved it.
Can't really fault this, beyond the complexity of the plot which robbed me of being able to work out who the spy was. But bloody hell I loved it.
9/10
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