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Brad AndersonScreenplay:
Tony GilroyCinematography:
Björn CharpentierComposer:
John DebneyCast:
Jon Hamm, Rosamund Pike, Shea Whigham, Idir Chender, Larry Pine, Dean Norris, Mark Pellegrino, Jonny Coyne, Kate Fleetwood, Alon Aboutboul, Douglas Hodge (more)VOD (3)
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The collateral damage of civil war is all-encompassing and unforgiving; a brutal setting for tense negotiations, especially when the results could have monumental consequences. Jon Hamm and Rosamund Pike star as CIA agents in this nail-biting intelligent thriller. From the writer of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and The Bourne Identity, The Negotiator is a suspenseful drama that questions government loyalties, how far one person is willing to push themselves in the pursuit of justice and where the moral line in the sand is drawn when faced with the severest of situations. Clandestine operations and a web of intrigue intertwine. (Signature Entertainment)
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Since I watched two espionage dramas from Netflix production in a row, I had something to compare this with. Unlike The Angel, Beirut employs well-known actor stars – especially Rosamund Pike, but Jon Hamm is also good. But here the espionage is over and done with rather quickly and after that, nothing exciting happens that would knock you off your seat. And the ending doesn’t add much. Mildly interesting but forgettable.
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Gilroy’s classic that lacks sufficiently distinctive directing. Beirut in the 1980s was like a frying pan filled with hot oil and information was like a good cut of meat. A wreck of a political negotiator re-enters the game to recover a guy whose head is full of high-quality veal and who, coincidentally, killed the negotiator’s wife by mistake a few years prior… A classic Cold War clash of espionage agencies in the war-torn capital of Lebanon. Hamm is great – his role fits him like a glove.
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