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Featured in The Graham Norton Show: Cher/Keira Knightley/Michael Fassbender/Josh Brolin/Jalen Ngonda (2024)
Scenario
Helen embarks on a passionate affair with a man who has no idea what her secret identity is. Caught in the crosshairs when her lover falls victim to the dangerous London underworld, Helen’s employer’s call in Sam to protect her.. Bingo, the owner of the guitar store where Sam gets his weapons, is played by Rat Scabies, a member of the band The Damned..
It starts off really well
Fairytale of New YorkWritten by Jem Finer, Shane MacGowanPerformed by The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl. It’s one of those common entertainments where you can’t really criticize the acting and the production values are pretty much flawless. Be absorbed and seduced by a complex spy thriller.
But John Le Carre it is not
Instead you soon realize it’s neither serious nor funny. As is so often the case these days it’s the paucity of the story that is the problem. It has quirky characters and indeed characters with all the charm and conversational wit one expects of psychopaths.
Sadly disappointing, it could have been really good
They could be related to Eve from Killing Eve but these are poor cousins and don’t really add up well on the scale of DNA psychopath inheritance. It’s a comic book caricature of a spy thriller with a storyline that relies on a thin plot and frequent action scenes to fill the spaces. No need to waste time endlessly scrolling — here’s the entire lineup of new movies and TV shows streaming on Netflix this month.
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