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This isn't a spy story, it's a love story and a pretty mediocre and melodramatic one at that. The direction was brilliant though! The camera-work and the music carpet worked beautifully to provoke and enhance the viewer's emotional state and to create a claustrophobic atmosphere that strengthened the feeling of inevitability and entrapment that the main character was experiencing!
I wasn't convinced by the way Danny & Alex met and fell in love, their relationship needed more development in my opinion. I didn't understand why Danny was targeted either. I understand that he was the perfect scapegoat and it would have been, should have been, ridiculously easy to send him in prison to rot but I don't understand why would an intelligence organization bother with all the rest without knowing he possessed any information that could harm them. He was a nobody with a shady past that nobody believed. Last but not least, I wasn't impressed by the revelation of Alex's research. But then again all spy related "secrets" in movies sound far-fetched to me.
In conclusion I thought this was a run-of-the-mill love story, with gaping plot holes, but beautiful direction!
score 5/10
p_bourha 15 May 2016
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