Storyline
During a handover to the head of counter-terrorism of MI5, Harry Pearce, a terrorist escapes custody. When Harry disappears soon after, his protégé is tasked with finding out what happened as an impending attack on London looms, and eventually uncovers a deadly conspiracy.
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Cast
Jennifer Ehle, Tim McInnerny, Michael Wildman, Lasco Atkins, Lee Asquith-Coe, Graham Curry, Russell Wilcox, David Harewood, Geoffrey Streatfeild, Eleanor Matsuura, Peter Firth, Kit Harington, Elyes Gabel, Paul Blackwell, Tuppence Middleton, Ronan Summers, Elizabeth Conboy, Lara Pulver, Hugh Simon, Elliot Levey, Cosmo Jarvis, Amra Mallassi, Dominic Garfield, Derek Horsham, Laura Swift, David Wurawa, Shina Shihoko Nagai, Brian Hanford, Jason Thomas Brown, Maria Teresa Creasey, Max Cavenham, Luke Harris, Amelia Donkor, Dario Parlato, Natasha Radski, Oliver Gilbert, Shane Zaza, Don Gayle, Larissa Kouznetsova, Guy Warren-Thomas
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Reviews
60
CineVue
The aesthetic, tone and performances result in a package that sits alongside similar Hollywood fare comfortably. However, in an industry that demands even the most famous spies to try something different, Nalluri's film never stands out.
60
A decent, mid-list spy thriller, suspended somewhere between le Carré and Bond but with a budgetary austerity in keeping with UK government spending cuts that keeps it out of the real high-stakes game.
60
Overall, excitement levels are moderate. But even if the film can’t match Hollywood for spectacle, there’s a sobering sense of the painful sacrifices and compromises facing those who toil in secret to keep us safe from harm.
60
It doesn’t exactly soar and the lack of levity grates, yet the Spooks movie still delivers some appealingly old-school mayhem.
50
Pairing another Firth (no relation) with crackerjack newcomer Taron Edgerton, Kingsman's fizzingly droll chutzpah can't help but make Spooks: The Greater Good, for all Peter Firth's ballast, seem dowdily old-school in comparison.
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