Our Kind of Traitor (2016)
Storyline
A young Oxford academic and his attorney girlfriend holiday on Antigua. They bump into a Russian millionaire who owns a peninsula and a diamond watch. He wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the lovers on a tortuous journey to the City of London and its unholy alliance with Britain's intelligence establishment, to Paris and the Alps.
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Cast
Damian Lewis, Velibor Topic, Naomie Harris, Khalid Abdalla, Marek Oravec, Stellan Skarsgård, Radivoje Bukvić, Ewan McGregor, Pawel Szajda, Mark Gatiss, Alec Utgoff, Jeremy Northam, Christian Brassington, Grigoriy Dobrygin, Alicia von Rittberg, Mark Stanley, Dolya Gavanski, Saskia Reeves, Carlos Acosta, Mariya Fomina, Jana Pérez, Katia Elizarova, Isabelle Brouwers, Isabelle Clough, Valentina Karoleva, Danielle Nieuwenhuys
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Reviews
80
Once you get past some bumps in the road of believability, Our Kind of Traitor turns into a brisk, energetic drama, with Anthony Dod Mantle’s photography adding interesting layers to a fairly straightforward plot.
75
The film, while gorgeously shot, is schematic and wholly implausible. But Skarsgård saves it; wild and funny and ferociously alive, he’s a crucial bolt of color in all that tasteful gray.
60
While McGregor and Harris convincingly portray a couple in trouble, and Lewis’s odball spook is an uneasy fit, it is Skarsgard’s dynamic performance which saves the day.
60
The shattering of one’s noble ideals is a delicate thing to capture on film, and White plays the moment of rupture with a banality that threatens to undermine our faith in her as storyteller more than in the system itself.
60
It's a finely made thriller that's a little bit more contemporary than other le Carré adaptations before it, and allows the central trio a chance to shine and Lewis to do some weird things with his accent and mouth as a weirdly laid back and unconcerned British agent.
