Review of The Operative (2019) by Peter Bradshaw for The Guardian — 15 Feb 2019
Audiences may come to this film expecting the conventional pleasures of a spy thriller – excitement, tension, suspense – along with the additional values associated with the very best of the genre: character nuance, emotional complexity, plausible human dilemma.
The Operative utterly defeats all of these hopes, chiefly in being at all times extremely boring.
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This review of The Operative (2019) was written by Peter Bradshaw and published by The Guardian on 15 Feb 2019.
The Operative has generally received mixed reviews.
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