Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

It's James Bond without the glamor, gadgets, and gorgeous girls or the spy who lost me. Based on John Le Carre's famed espionage novel, this movie centers around a bloody mess of a botched Budapest mission and the search to smoke out a mole in the British Secret Intelligence Service. Alien's first faux pas was not studying the Studio's dossier handed out before the screening (maybe it's supposed to be a prerequisite for understanding this film). This spy mystery felt realistic, but seemed rather dull, dragging, dark, and down right confusing as the scenes jumped back and forth in the timeline. Lost in the spy jargon, Alien probably missed the key clues that would have helped in tracking what and why things were actually happening. This is more of a thinking man's spy thriller than an action packed stunt show.

Alien gives it 1 "stinker, failure, so jeer, why?" stars out of 4.

BTW, the dossier was more informtive and entertaining than the movie.