srupa Absolutely terrible film, wooden acting & even worse plot....avoid

swjg Based on the John LeCarre novel and co-scripted by him.I always felt LeCarre had lost his way a bit after the whole Circus and Smiley's people thing. But this modern look at the Russian Mafia / oligarch scene is worth the price of admission. By no means a summer BLOCKBUSTER but a good tale well told with great photography and a well acted script.And the usual LeCarre twist at the end...

bowmanblue 'Our Kind of Traitor' should really have been my sort of movie. The acting talent utilised really is pretty impressive – Ewan McGregor, Damian Lewis and Naomi Harris all well used to turning in great performances that can lift a film. I first became aware of this film as a 'new release' on Amazon and did wonder why I'd never heard of it before. I'm guessing it was either released straight to DVD, or had such a limited cinema release that no one really heard much about it. And for a good reason, it's pretty boring.Despite the acting talent on offer, it never really gets going. A married couple (McGregor and Harris) are on a 'second honeymoon' kind of holiday where they're trying to rekindle their marriage after he had an affair with a younger woman. Once on their travels he stays out late and gets talking (and drinking) with a particularly dodgy-looking crowd of guys (who have the word 'criminal' stamped across their foreheads, in my opinion) and end up somehow being 'witnesses' for their good character during an upcoming deal for political asylum with MI6. No, seriously.Apart from how generally ludicrous this sounds, I had two problems with the story – firstly I felt there wasn't much motivation for Ewan McGregor's character to actually hook up with these dodgy guys – an action that clearly went against his attempts to patch things up with his wife. And, secondly, the main 'villain' (I'll leave it up to you to decide if they're villains or not) keeps referring to McGregor as 'Professor.' Yes, Ewan plays a university lecturer and admits this early on. It's just the guy uses it almost as a put-down, making 'the professor's' compliance in his business even less likely.Okay, so it's a little far-fetched, but Star Wars never won any points for its 'realism.' I can suspend my disbelief if what I'm seeing is vaguely interesting. And this isn't. It's not bad, it just should be more due to its actors, yet it comes across as a 'made-for-TV' movie that takes way too long to get going. It's not all bad – Damien Lewis seems to be revelling in playing a slightly smarmy MI6 agent. If you're a fan of his then you'll get a little more out of this film, otherwise… there's better on offer.

jblum315-733-998513 Awful movie, painful to watch. Hardly any resemblance to LeCarre's splendid book. In fact, IMO, the only decent movie that's been made from a LeCarre novel was Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy with Alec Guinness. The others were overly violent in a bid to attract the youth audience and insufficiently political.If you think that LeCarre's story is not relevant, may I remind you that at this moment we are very close to engaging in a cold war with Russia again. All it takes is one foolish word from either Trump or Putin and we will be right back where we were 50 years ago.I don't think the world of international spying is kaput. With modern technology, spying is ubiquitous.