The November Man
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An ex-C.I.A. operative is brought back in on a very personal mission and finds himself pitted against his former pupil in a deadly game involving high level C.I.A. officials and the Russian President-elect.
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The November Man
An ex-C.I.A. operative is brought back in on a very personal mission and finds himself pitted against his former pupil in a deadly game involving high level C.I.A. officials and the Russian President-elect.
Peter Devereaux is a former CIA agent who is asked by the man he worked for to extract a woman who is in Russia and is presently close to a man running for President, who is believed to have committed crimes during the Chechen war. She can give them the name of someone who can prove it. His friend says that she will only come to him. So he goes and she gets the info and tries to get out but the man finds out and tries to stop her.
User Review
Very slick, quite harsh and brutal in parts, and sustains suspense throughout; however, still essentially nearly totally predictable as it is built around a plot and stereotypical characters that have been done a thousand times before. From a political point-of-view, it wouldn't be unreasonable at all to consider this movie well-polished anti-Russian propaganda, although I'm not super bothered by this, since I'm not a big fan of mother Russian right now anyhow. Pushes all of the right emotional buttons appropriate to a male fantasy of supreme macho competence. Pierce Brosnan plays a better and more realistic 007 than he ever did in any actual Bond film, insofar as you can use the term realistic with a film like this. He seems to have aged well into this kind of role. Now maybe we should dump the dour and pretentious Craig and return to Brosnan as an older, but better and wiser agent On Her Majesty's Secret Service (just an idea folks). For what this film intends to be, I think it succeeds very well, so I' rating it pretty highly, although ultimately there is nothing here to really make you think. If you're looking for a pretty relentless but not utterly ridiculous action movie, you might want to give this a shot.
