Review of A Most Wanted Man (2014) by Dawdlingpoet — 27 Nov 2021

This is your average spy action thriller film, although the story is quite good, it didn't really grip me as such. It made me think of the recent TV series 'The Looming Tower', indeed it does have quite a looming sense to it but it wasn't as engrossing as I'd have perhaps liked.

Philip Seymour Hoffman gives a decent enough performance but there is some shaky camerawork and the dark lighting bothered me a bit. I suppose I should expect that, given the plot etc. but I wasn't that intrigued by it, mostly due to the plodding plot pace.

This isn't an awful film but its not what I'd think of as especially great, so I'm going for a 3 star rating overall.