Our Kind of Traitor (2016)

The only reason why I'm writing this entry is to say that I got something done today... And if it's coming out decently luck might change (hopefully). It depends now how we define "today", but let's get back to "Our Kind of Traitor" until the dawn catches up.

We're speaking about an adaptation from an author who was pretty successful in the last decades - John Le Carre, although the genre we're talking about is an old school spy thriller that's not really common since the '80s passed. A literature professor traveling to Morocco in a romantic holiday with his wife, hoping to warm up a cold relation, is approached by a sort of accountant of the Russian mafia. Who decided to switch sides and come clean after the premature death of a "colleague". And like that, from a literature teacher, our guy finds himself in the position of an MI6 informer, getting involved in a pretty unlikely story, where he's decided to help his new friend.

The movie is helped a lot by the presence of four actors: Stellan Skarsgard, Damian Lewis, Naomie Harris and Ewan McGregor. In that order, not the one on the poster, although all of them play an excellent part. Otherwise, there's not much to see here. A relatively simple story, which as I was saying is not that credible either. All in all, there's a sort of romantic side in all this that I didn't really feel in this genre since "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" (same author, 53 years ago). Considering that after all this time it's still working...

Rating: 3.5 out of 5