So, this lawyer starts off all activist-y and scrupulous, and then suddenly pivots into "Hey, let's make my client a spy asset!" territory. Bit of a leap, honestly. I mean, sure, we're probably meant to think she’s doing it to stop terrorism or whatever, but the transformation feels like it skipped a few steps. Like, blink and boom: espionage recruiter. The middle chunk of the movie drags a bit; various stretches where you're just kind of... hanging around. But then it pulls itself together for a solid, gut-punch of an ending. Frustrating, bleak, and probably more realistic than you'd like to believe. It leaves that intentionally incomplete, harrowing feeling, which is effective, even if not satisfying. I don't know how memorable of a movie it's going to be in the long run, in spite of the story and the character development -- caveat above aside -- being pretty good.

Stretched but marvellous, speaking of the invisibility of trust.

When it ends, you go “wtf was that?”, then come on rotten tomatoes and try to warn others.

Sin duda puedo haber sido mucho mejor es la clásica película de espionaje “real” que no aporta nada, Seymur actúa regular no a lo que nos tenía acostumbrados y la historia un poco predecible sin duda pudo ser mejor lo salvable es Dafoe y McAdams

A very well made thriller filled with terrific performances. Phillip Hoffman in one of his last roles gives a brilliant performance. Tim Treakle

Lacking actual storyline & information, surrounding the actual main character, being the “Most wanted man”…. I felt I was waiting for something to happen that just never did!…. I wanted to know more about his background, not just that he was tortured and came back for his father’s money and a better life? …. Too much talk, talk, talk, boringly drawn out, not much action, hated the ending! Felt Un-finished! Left Disappointed, could have been a much greater film, I feel.

A most wanted man was a most boring movie!

This was an awful movie. Bad accents, slow burn that never really lit, and no reason to truly care for the characters. Do not waste your time.

In the world of espionage, the line between terrorist and turn-coat is very hard to deduce! As Russian spy Gunther Bachmann attempts to recruit informants for terrorist group, the emergence of an enigmatic refugee spurs multiple agencies to find him, he attempts to find him first so that he can go after the bigger fish. A timely story of the paranoia in a world of secrets and lies, as things are not always as they appear!

A thought provoking drama that stayed with me. Great performances throughout.

The film alternates between interesting and predictable but it thankfully swings more in favor of the former, especially in the ending. The oppressively dull modern architecture that seems to haunt every scene is especially fitting for a Le Carre adaptation and Hoffman's so good it will just end up depressing you.

It is interesting in that this was Phillip Seymour Hoffman's last role and only British accent that I am aware of. Unfortunately, this was not one of his best roles. His acting was there but the story dragged on so much that I find it difficult to keep my attention on this movie. That is why I am giving it a solid 5/10. Definitely watchable but I hoped for much more.

What a horrible swan song for an American treasure. Dreary, pretentious, slow, unfulfilling, and far less complicated than it presumes to be.

Boring. Too many unnecessarily long and drawn out conversations, and tedious character interactions. I kept waiting for something thrilling or suspenseful to happen, and for the movie to get to the meat of the story, but I was disappointed. If you are expecting a film with a satisfying conclusion...this isnt it. Take some caffeine to keep you awake for this snoozefest.

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Superb, Seymour Hoffman is simply outstanding in his role as a grizzled German spy here.

A movie that SEEMS like it should be good, but is infinitely bogged down by seemingly minor side characters and an at times inscrutable plot line for me. The German accents were also a bit off putting. However, for someone who is better at following complicated plotlines, I can see this being a very engaging, albeit subtle, spy thriller.

This is your average spy action thriller film, although the story is quite good, it didn't really grip me as such. It made me think of the recent 온라인카지노추천 series 'The Looming Tower', indeed it does have quite a looming sense to it but it wasn't as engrossing as I'd have perhaps liked. Philip Seymour Hoffman gives a decent enough performance but there is some shaky camerawork and the dark lighting bothered me a bit. I suppose I should expect that, given the plot etc. but I wasn't that intrigued by it, mostly due to the plodding plot pace. This isn't an awful film but its not what I'd think of as especially great, so I'm going for a 3 star rating overall.

Drama overshadowed the real threat here. Hoffman is the centre of everything, either you love his works or...

A multi-layered espionage thriller, A Most Wanted Man is tantalizing, but is that enough to satisfy? I'm split between critics and audience (RT 87/65) on this one. Philip Seymour Hoffman, the king of minuscule movements and idiosyncrasies, is fantastic as Günther Bachmann, a German spy in Hamburg, Germany. The film opens by providing the viewer with context that the plotters of the 9/11 attacks began in Hamburg, a very cool city that is rarely the setting of a film. Günther and his team (Nina Hoss, Daniel Brühl) — which are not affiliated with the local authorities but operate beneath the surface — receive intel that a Chechen refugee (Grigory Dobrygin) who has come into an enormous inheritance, but also is an Islamic Fundamentalist, has arrived in the city. From here, the plot unfolds not with gunfights and car-chase scenes, but with psychological pressure and manipulation. The concept is equated to fishing — using a minnow to catch a barracuda, a barracuda to catch a shark — and I think that's fitting. However, the film falls prey to one of my biggest movie bugaboos: the language. The cast is excellent — PSH, Rachel McAdams, Willem Dafoe, Robin Wright — but with the exception of Wright, the rest play Germans. I'm fine with that, it's acting, but it doesn't make sense for Germans, in Germany, only speaking to other Germans, to speak… English. This isn't a Death of Stalin situation where the actors speak their language (English) in their own accents even though they're playing historical Soviet individuals and it's just part of the movie. If there is an international conversation, then yes, it would almost always make sense for the speakers to default to English, but very often — like most of the movie — entire convos that would be German are in English (with a German accent..) and it's dumb. The ending was a gut-punch that sucks the air out of the room, but what is the message? Wouldn't this "betrayal" completely undermine the cooperation between the three parties at play: Günther's team, the German authorities, and the U.S. government? It felt realistic, in a good way, for a spy-movie, and if you can overlook the language issue, it's an enjoyable watch.