Ewan McGregor and Naomie Harris play a vacationing English couple, who befriend a flamboyant Russian (Stellan Skarsgård). He’s got the goods on organized crime in his country and gets the hapless couple involved helping him flee to England with his family. While there’s a bunch of intrigue (often portrayed by suspicious glances), there’s not much suspense. An uninteresting with no surprises plot doesn’t help. The performances are OK and there are some nice international locales, but the story unfolds without creating much empathy for the characters or providing any thrills. If you want to see a John le Carré novel carried out with style and tension, see “The Night Manager,” which was recently on AMC.
(2.5 / 5)