The Looking Glass War
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Movie Reviews of The Looking Glass War
Movie Review: angela morelys music score
Summary: 5 Stars
wow!
the looking glass war is not only a great movie but also includes a great music score that as a jazz musician i feel would be very much appealing to anyone who loves jazzy flavored themes!!!!
not having heard of mr. wally stott previously to this film, i was curious about this fine composer and recently after reading some rave reviews from amazon .com of this great film was pleasantly surprized to learn that the music was actually composed by a lady named angela morley writing under the pen? name of wally stott!
whatever the case may be, this score is vibrant and certainly adds to the overall suspense of this fascinating drama.
its a timely document to the terrible politics of any war and
makes us glad somehow that we all manage to sleep safely in our beds at night as spoken by anthony hopkins (john avery) in the film.
chris jones is excellent as well as mr. anthony hopkins.
and pia degermark is sweet as anna.
i would have liked to have seen more of chris and pia both together in the film.
my first experience with this great john lecarre story was while sitting in a train station in chicago with an extremely long wait for a train and i managed to read the complete novel in one sitting.
ive been a fan of this story and mr.lecarre ever since.
and of course the spy who came in from the cold is definately an icon of the genre of great spy stories and fims.....
while east germany is no longer a threat! the threat of war continues to be a seemingly never ending problem and no matter where we are the threat of agression will always be a sad
dillema that all of us will have to face on our planet.
thank you for your great thoughts mr.lecarre and so magnificently spoken by mr anthony hopkins......
joseph manone
Movie Review: Behind enemy lines
Summary: 5 Stars
The year is 1969 and the Cold War is raging. A British spy who was investigating missiles on the East German border has just been killed. The West needs another agent fast and they hire Leiser (Christopher Jones), a handsome and clever young man from Poland. He agrees to be a spy in exchange for political asylum in the West. He sneaks into East Germany and finds not only missiles, but also an very pretty girl, while his trainers (Anthony Hopkins, Ralph Richardson) anxiously wait to hear from him.
This isn't the James Bond kind of spy movie; there's no glitz or glamour and definitely no humor. Instead, it's a grim, pitiless look at the men who pull the strings in the espionage game. There isn't a lot of action; the bleak and hopeless mood of the times pervades the story. With Hopkins and Richardson around, one has to wonder why they recruited an outsider to join British Intelligence, but if you can overlook this plot hole, it is an engrossing film. Handsome Christopher Jones, a James Dean look-alike, is appropriately petulant and charismatic. It's a shame his voice had to be dubbed; one wonders what his voice really sounds like. Young Anthony Hopkins brings his usual intensity and dignity to a rather thankless role. It's an interesting, if cynical, look at the paranoia that characterized the 60s.
Movie Review: Underseen but quite good
Summary: 4 Stars
The Bottom Line:
A gritty spy thriller that eschews gadgetry and gimmicks to focus on the nuts and bolts of espionage and the egos of the men who send spies overseas to die, The Looking Glass War is not as well-known (or as good) a film as The Spy Who Came in from the Cold but it's a worthy entry into the genre and well worth watching for LeCarre buffs or people who like this sort of thing.
3/4
Movie Review: The Looking Glass War
Summary: 4 Stars
The movie was a little lacking for a spy movie. It
needed more of a story line. But, Christopher Jones
was worth watching, He's a "Fine" actor, and
still gets movie offers, but he seems more into being
an Artist now. He sells his work, and you can buy his
prints, I have bought a few. They are Great!!
Movie Review: Pleased, with prejudice ~
Summary: 4 Stars
I fell in love with Christopher Jones at first sight and there are many scenes with him in this movie. His acting was at its best and, while the story is dated, it's still a thriller in more ways than one. A young Anthony Hopkins is also refreshing to watch. A movie to re-watch every so often.