The Ipcress File
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Movie Reviews of The Ipcress File
Movie Review: "Spy High"
Summary: 5 Stars
Maurice Micklewhite (Michael Caine) has always been one of my favorite actors. I saw this 007 Era movie when it was first released and watched it again more recently. It is a FAB movie. It has lost nothing over time and can even be more appreciated today. Caine is very magnetic as the oh so sexy but slightly nerdy instrument of espionage. A great, suspenseful movie that is effective without all the 007 gimmicks.Movie Review: the classic English spy thriller,Caine at his best...
Summary: 5 Stars
To me this is the perfect english spy thriller .. early Michael Caine(love those hornrimmed glasses...) A thinking mans spy movie..excellent characterizations..one doublecross after another ..a film made when we still had a cold war.. British upper class , when your club ment everything..A must see..Ranks with THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD as the best of the genre..Movie Review: the albanian, the decoy, the mole
Summary: 5 Stars
The good old days of deception and brainwashing. The zenith of the obscure and analytical secret services of the eastern block.
His name is Harry Palmer: he's cocky, defiant and effective. He thinks he has one mission; actually he has two.
Movie Review: Ipcress File DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
Michael Caine has a cult following almost for this DVD and the other two that go with it.
I enjoyed it and then sold it on the Internet.
Movie Review: A flesh and bone James Bond.
Summary: 4 Stars
Britain is suffering from a severe case of "brain drain" as its top scientists keep disappearing. Sounds like a job for James Bond? Enter Harry Palmer, a spy to be sure as we watch him watching his assignment through binoculars. A ladies man to be sure, since he definitely has an eye for bird watching. Yet, the spy world of Harry Palmer is a bureaucratic labyrinth of pencil pushers, endless paperwork, and monotony. Harry is indeed a clever spy, but was recruited into the organization because of his criminal background and the threat of being sent back into prison is dangled above his head by superiors. Harry's insubordinate and a trickster but these qualities make him unpredictable and in an organization filled with straight laced bureaucrats, he's a wild card in their favor. And so Harry's transferred from one department to another as a replacement for an agent who was found shot to death, a man who was afraid of cancer, while shadowing another of the country's latest scientists. The Brits want him back and are willing to pay top dollar. Things get complicated when his old boss requests a classified file containing a section of audio tape that Harry had recovered during an investigation, identified only by the name Ipcress. Harry's perceptive enough to realize that his own spy network might contain a double agent. When he presents his case before his new department head, he's already a marked man, too hot to touch, and so is left out in the cold. THE IPCRESS FILE is the first of three films about the exploits of Harry Palmer (the other two being Funeral in Berlin (1966) and Billion Dollar Brain (1967)) and is a deliberately slow paced, stylishly directed thriller that perfectly showcases Michael Cain's subtle blend of arrogance, humor and vulnerability that he often brings to a performance. The camera work throughout is innovative, constantly peeking from behind characters, around corners, angled shots looking up from the ground, never giving us a clear perspective of what's going on. The same can be said when we see things from Harry's perspective, slightly out of focus. It is curious that he wears glasses throughout the film to see things more clearly, but it is only when his glasses are removed that he sees things how they really are. The film is complemented by an excellent score and catchy theme composed by the great John Barry. Highly recommended.