The Courier
The Courier
The Courier
Directed by:
Dominic CookeScreenplay:
Tom O'ConnorCinematography:
Sean BobbittComposer:
Abel KorzeniowskiCast:
Benedict Cumberbatch, Merab Ninidze, Rachel Brosnahan, Jessie Buckley, Angus Wright, Кирилл Пирогов, Anton Lesser, Željko Ivanek, Alice Orr-Ewing (more)VOD (3)
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The Courier is a true-life spy thriller, the story of an unassuming British businessman Greville Wynne (Benedict Cumberbatch) recruited into one of the greatest international conflicts in history. At the behest of the UK's MI-6 and a CIA operative (Rachel Brosnahan), he forms a covert, dangerous partnership with Soviet officer Oleg Penkovsky (Merab Ninidze) in an effort to provide crucial intelligence needed to prevent a nuclear confrontation and defuse the Cuban Missile Crisis. (Finnkino)
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The Cold War is reaching its peak, and British businessman Benedict Cumberbatch is given the chance to prevent disaster. He is to become a liaison between the Western secret services and the Soviets, who are willing to share their country's biggest secrets. How long will they get away with it? The Courier is a very good-looking period piece with excellent actors, but unfortunately without strong emotions or significant tension. Professionally done, but ultimately a bit dull and unnecessarily conservative.
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I have to give it to the filmmakers that they managed to capture the atmosphere of the time perfectly. Then I was literally flabbergasted by Benedict Cumberbatch's unprecedented physical transformation in order to portray the role as convincingly as possible. My only regret is that Cooke's movie lacks any kind of build-up and drama, everything kind of fizzles out. (65%)
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