Film Review: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

I found this film a little hard to follow as the story was quite complicated and not much information was given to the audience but I suppose this was the approach the director wanted to take to make the situation as confusing to the audience as it was to the characters. The film had a nice pace to it for the most part although in order to make the film seem to climax at the end I think that the pace was too fast for the ending of the movie to really sink in or be easily understood by the audience, in fact I think that the pace became too fast for the pay off to really feel worth of the rest of the film. Having said that I did manage to understand everything that had happened and on the whole found the entire film very engaging. The film achieves this feeling of engagement by involving the viewer and keeping them guessing during every single shot, this was opitomised by something by friend said while watching it "I don't know why but I just can't look away" as he wanted to escape to get a drink but did not dare miss a second of the story. I thought that the director was trying to engage the audience more than anything by using strong characters with a lot to them and making anybody a possible suspect, it made the guessing part of it very fun and I would imagine rewatching the film will still be fun because you will see bits you missed such as clues and the fact that the film is generally entertaining on its own.