A Most Wanted Man (Blu-ray) R
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 1 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 4, 2014
- Originally Released: 2014
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Willem Dafoe & Robin Wright | |
Performer: | Daniel Brühl, Nina Hoss, Herbert Grönemeyer, Martin Wuttke & Rainer Bock | |
Directed by | Anton Corbijn | |
Edited by | Claire Simpson | |
Screenplay by | Andrew Bovell | |
Original story by | John le Carré | |
Composition by | Herbert Grönemeyer | |
Cinematography by | Benoît Delhomme |
Entertainment Reviews:
[It] crackles with a jigsaw-puzzle intelligence and features a superbly subtle lead performance from the late Philip Seymour Hoffman… -- Grade: B
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 3/5 --
A Most Wanted Man is an efficient espionage drama that, whilst in no way revelatory, is attuned to its source material's non-heroic and morally ambiguous approach to a well-worn genre.
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CineVue
Rating: 4/5 --
This is the sharpest, most reasonable tale of espionage and intrigue since John Boorman's Tailor of Panama.
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San Diego Reader
Rating: 3/5 --
So stylish that no one seems able to bring themselves to say exactly what's happening.
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Sunday Times (UK)
4 stars out of 4 -- [I]t is one of the best spy thrillers in recent years.
Chicago Sun-Times
[A] smart, bluntly effective adaptation of John le Carré’s post-9/11 political passion play about good, evil and the sins committed in the name of national security.
New York Times
One of the countless sad things about losing Hoffman is the realization that we'll never get to watch him single-handedly elevate an otherwise OK movie again.
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Slate
Product Description:
The late Philip Seymour Hoffman gives his final screen performance in this taut yet labyrinthine adaptation of John le Carré's 2008 spy novel. In the years immediately following 9/11, Gunter Bachmann (Hoffman) is a counterterrorist expert based in Hamburg who operates as a rogue agent, independently of the Grenzschutzgruppe 9 der Bundespolizei (GSG-9). He specializes in bringing down jihadists, and as the story opens, he begins to fixate on a Chechen immigrant named Issa Karpov (Grigoriy Dobrygin), newly arrived in town. Issa's motivations are initially unknown, but he befriends an American social worker (Rachel McAdams) who grows convinced of his harmlessness and sets about persuading Gunter of the same. Meanwhile, Gunter becomes aware of a palpable and imminent threat to national security that involves future jihad activity, and devises an ingenious plan that he hopes will both extinguish the threat and provide amnesty for Issa. The Americans and the GSG-9, however, learn of Gunter's plot and express both impatience and a general skepticism about the scheme's effectiveness. A MOST WANTED MAN premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.