John LeCarre's spy thriller is brought to the big screen. A British spy is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador's mistress. Once there he makes connection with a local tailor with a nefarious past and connections to all of the top political and gangster figures in Panama. The tailor also has a wife, who works for the Panamanian president and a huge debt. The mission is to learn what the President intends to do with the Panama Canal. But what the two do is concoct a tremendous fictional tale about former mercenaries who are ready to topple the current government and are... willing to work with Britain and the US to do so.
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Tailor of Panama, The Pierce Brosnan stars as a washed-up secret service agent in this ace adaptation of John Le Carré's novel
'Smiley's People' and 'Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy' made for landmark TV. So an adaptation of John Le Carré's 1996 tale of Harry Pendel (here played by Geoffrey Rush), a man who patches the Panamanian president's shirts but has a hidden past, was inevitable.
Less predictable was that it would end up in the hands of director John Boorman, whose career has veered wildly from eco-awareness movies like The Emerald Forest to the insanely ambitious sci-fi epic Zardoz. Fortunately, The Tailor Of Panama finds him in his Point Bl...
A generally enjoyable watch, but not sure what it wants to be
I must admit that I struggled to work out what type of movie I was watching. At times, it seemed to be a classic John Le Carre espionage thriller, at others a tongue-in-cheek version of the same, and at others a story heading towards a series of seriously twisty plot twists, twisting around like a twisty thing, David Mamet-style.
This actually let it down, because it was hard to work out who you were supposed to be rooting for. Pierce Brosnan, in particular, played a nastier version of his 007 persona, and was clearly not supposed to come out as the overall victor.
The story itself, however, based around the conceit that one or two half-truths can quickly become self-fulfilli...
Tailor of Panama, The
Deft and derisive thriller, about the self-justifying fantasists of the espionage business, that acknowledges its debt to Graham Greene's Our Man in Havana. It gains from Brosnan's performance as a sleazy, womanising spy who might imagine that he was Jame
'Smiley's People' and 'Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy' made for landmark TV. So an adaptation of John Le Carré's 1996 tale of Harry Pendel (here played by Geoffrey Rush), a man who patches the Panamanian president's shirts but has a hidden past, was inevitable.
Less predictable was that it would end up in the hands of director John Boorman, whose career has veered wildly from eco-awareness movies like The Emerald Forest to the insanely ambitious sci-fi epic Zardoz. Fortunately, The Tailor Of Panama finds him in his Point Blank and Deliverance mode, rather than his excruciating Exorcist II mode.
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