Page Eight (TV)
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Thriller
Johnny Worricker (Bill Nighy) is a long-serving MI5 officer. His boss and best friend Benedict Baron (Michael Gambon) dies suddenly, leaving behind him an inexplicable file, threatening the stability of the organization. Meanwhile, a seemingly chance encounter with Johnny's striking next-door neighbour and political activist Nancy Pierpan (Rachel Weisz) seems too good to be true. Johnny is forced to walk out of his job, and then out of ... [+]
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"It's the right cast in the right setting but with a wrongfully righteous script." | ||||
"Even though there may be a fleeting moment when you feel an urge to slap Mr. Nighy and yell: 'Perk up,' in truth he can do no wrong here." | ||||
"The post-Cold War evolution of MI5 is a potentially juicy subject, but while Hare lines up the elements, he fails to take the story anyplace especially revelatory or combustible." | ||||
"A quietly absorbing elegy for old-school spooks, Page Eight bristles with jazzy intelligence." | ||||
"The movie is so carefully stylized, any and all emotional import has been sucked out of it." | ||||
"If you can get past the notion of Nighy being irresistible to every woman he encounters (I almost did), you'll get caught up in the carefully modulated intrigue." |
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