Khun Kru Mark Walken at his most menacing, Nighy at his quirkiest, Ryder at her maddest and more besides...Despite the overly polished screenplay, this movie works well. The plot is a bit vague and it's not always clear who's who and why people are doing what they do, but the mighty strength of the characters make up for all of that.There are no weak links and each of the cast members manage to make the most of their onscreen time. Imagine if the CIA really did have dangerously unstable geniuses (like Christopher Walken) running the show. Maybe they do!The world is in the unsafe hands of super-rich corporate mobsters and they are drawn together to hammer out a way to launder their billions. The governments of the US and the UK are in on the ruse and want either a piece of the action, or some sort of comeuppance. The corruption rises pretty high which forces our Bond type hero (Bill Nighy) to play his cards ultra-cautiously while at the same time, reviving an old affair.It helps that the scenery of Turks & Caicos play a role, too. It's a luxury playground with natural beauty which contrasts starkly with the nefarious human interference.The pace probably handicaps this for younger viewers and the violence is implied rather than played out. But for older folk, it's a treat.Riveting stuff!

Roedy Green This movie keeps you guessing. What are the various characters really up to? Can they be trusted? What are they trying to do?I had a problem telling the two lead females apart. They look similar. They keep changing the makeup, hairstyles and makeup. For while, I thought there were three different women.The soundtrack is a wonderful melange of accents from all over the world. Turks and Caicos is a tropical paradise.The basic plot involves extorting $200 million from the bad guys. I did not understand how this was supposed to stop the bad guys, who got to keep the money, why the Bill Nigh character risked his life to participate. I was puzzled why the bad guys did not kill the extortionists.This movie is a bit like being a child, sitting on the floor, under the table, listening to some serious adult conversation, only glimpsing a bit of what it was all about. It fun not to have everything explained ham- fistedly.

begob One spy spots another spy on a Caribbean beach and, through a series of further coincidences, they take on a bunch of corrupt business types.I realised at the end this was a sequel to another contrived spy outing for the hero - not so memorable. Big problems with the story, relying so much on coincidence, and the central plot point is hardly earth shattering. Wordy script with its emphasis on the nasty security state that we've slipped into over the past ten years, and yet it lacks a killer speech to reveal the essence of this cruel and treacherous world, and shows no violence at all to convince us of the threat posed.The intro scene looks completely amateur, as if they weren't sure where to start, and the camera direction ain't great, with so many close ups botched as the characters light endless cigarettes. There was one theatrical scene with unnatural dialogue, and the ickyness of the beach scene at the end revealed the simplistic approach to a terribly complex intersection between the power of the state and the power of money. So I'm not a fan of this writer/director.I do like the actors, but ... Nighy seems to flip between assured calm and self-consciousness. Walken has his old man pants on, and Carter was a bit at sea with her reaction in the shake down scene. Ryder is very good in close up - big eyes and facial ticks that suggest a deep pit of pain.The music was OK, nothing special - and what was with that song over the end credits? Overall - underpowered story that doesn't even look interesting.

William Corden... read 'em and weep For many reasons this didn't work for me. I didn't think much of Winona Ryder's portrayal and it really felt as though Nighy's timing was off (although that could have been the editing). The editing in general was choppy in many of the exchanges and you would have thought that the guys looking at the final product would have picked up on it. As for the plot, well material like this needs a lot of character development to bring out the sleazy nature of what goes on in high finance and politics. There was none of that in this piece and that's why it's a TV movie, sort of an elongated short story. Even the Turks and Caicos weren't exploited for their full cinematic value and this shortcoming added to the overall pallid impression I was left with. I don't think the closing scene was acting,it was just a couple of people glad to be going home