Review - "A Most Wanted Man"

Release Date: 12th September 2014
Certification: 15
Time: 122 minutes
Directed by: Anton Corbijn
Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Daniel Brühl, Homayoun Ershadi, Mehdi Dehbi, Neil Malik Abdullah

In 2010, Anton Corbijn The American, posted a film about a man with a touch murderer. Instead of big guns and kill elegant, presents an almost silent and George Clooney was a piece that focused on existential functionality and purpose. The film frustrated more than happy, but it was nice to have a different spin on a well-worn theme. Four years later, the latest offering from Corbijn, a wanted man tried a similar trick, but with much more satisfactory results.
Philip Seymour Hoffman directs an anti-terrorist team in Hamburg, Germany, since Issa Karpov are terrorist suspects (Grigory Dobrygin). A familiar beginning for you. Instead of a standard of numbers thriller, but offers Corbijn an examination of how the world has changed since we began the war against terrorism. Refreshing is not all explosions and gunfire; he is more concerned about the terrible things that happen in the background. The dark forces that wish us harm. Dirty tactics used to stop them. The feeling that if something happens, catastrophic, you can not be taken by bureaucratic ingenuity and an enemy steps.

If this happened 15 years ago, Tom Cruise would have played and ended with a time of defusing race-against-a bomb in the center of Hamburg. Instead, we have Hoffman as electrifying as always, to the recording bars and shaded parking do shady business. Constantly bent under the weight of the mistakes of the past and current work, chose a much less conspicuous than their counterparts in the 1990s is a man who clearly see, ready to catch the big picture and released a number of minnows criminal tactics in their extremist efforts to land big fish.

This time gambling Corbijn. He did a great job of building surveys Hoffman as a house of cards, ensure that all parties are fully prepared to achieve the goal. That is the weak point of this case makes it so addictive. This is the biggest success is the kind of tension a little more than a few pen strokes away, so that it underestimates of the nail biting in a while. This time the bet is successful. If only more filmmakers were willing to take these risks.

★★★★ ☆

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