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The Operative

2019

Yuval Adler

Diane Kruger, Martin Freeman, Cas Anvar, Werner Daehn ...

5.5

571

Thriller Rachel, who is actually called something else, speaks several languages fluently and is at home everywhere and nowhere. Perfect qualifications for an agent, according to the Israeli foreign intelligence service Mossad that recruits her. Her liaison officer Thomas holds her in high esteem; operational command in Israel is also convinced and so Rachel is sent to Tehran on an undercover mission. Fascinated by this foreign country, she ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Guy Lodge Variety	"[An] unremarkable but all-in-order espionage thriller (...) [A] fairly impersonal genre piece that hangs on its leading lady’s every word, move and steel-eyed glance"
		David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"Neither terrible nor terribly gripping (...) Writer-director Yuval Adler connects the dots of the convoluted plot with reasonable clarity, but 'The Operative' only intermittently builds suspense."
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"An unexciting mess (...) There is bafflingly little that’s exciting or even all that interesting in the story being told, and the performances themselves are opaque and disengaged (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"
		Noel Murray Los Angeles Times	"An espionage drama that’s well acted but largely inert (...) [It] hits all the right plot points but never connects them to a story with any kind of momentum or tension."
		Wendy Ide Screendaily	"Kruger is compelling in the central role in this pacy procedural thriller which is persuasive in its depiction of contemporary spycraft but less convincing in mounting a case for why she would work for Mossad in the first place"
		Ben Kenigsberg The New York Times	"[It] doesn’t offer much distinctive, but it does deliver a few suspenseful sequences, some interesting nuts-and-bolts details of espionage work and a good lead performance en route to an unsatisfying ending"

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