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Spooks: The Greater Good (known as MI-5 in some countries) is a 2015 British spy film, continuing from the 2002–2011 British television spy series Spooks. Jonathan Brackley and Sam Vincent wrote the script, with Bharat Nalluri directing.
MI-5 (Spooks: The Greater Good) is a stylish, albeit rather perfunctory, adaptation of a spy thriller perhaps best left on the small screen. Read Critics Reviews
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May 8, 2015 · Spooks: The Greater Good, movie review: Kit Harington and Peter Firth leap to the big screen at a ripping pace. (15) Bharat Nalluri, 104 mins. Starring: Kit Harington, Peter Firth, Jennifer...
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Apr 16, 2014 · Spooks: The Greater Good Review. British intelligence officer Sir Harry Pearce (Firth) finds himself blamed after terrorist Adem Qasim (Gabel) escapes from custody. Believing Qasim was helped by...
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By Leigh Singer
Updated: Nov 24, 2018 6:59 pm
Posted: May 6, 2015 9:00 am
“MI-5 – not 9-to-5” was the nifty tagline appended to BBC spy series Spooks when it emerged in 2002. It served notice that this wasn't going to be a routine show, and, like the US’s 24, ushered in a rougher, more morally compromised type of post-911 spy drama.
Over 10 years the show, centred around the UK’s domestic security intelligence agency (as opposed to MI-6’s international branch), quickly gained a reputation for fast-paced, slick yet gritty storylines, populated by a revolving cast of conflicted characters who, in what became the show’s trademark, were regularly and unceremoniously bumped off – as established in its second-ever episode, when a supposed lead, played by a rising British TV actress, was thrust face-first into a deep-fat fryer.
Since then, numerous cast members including David Oyelowo (Selma’s Martin Luther King) and The Hobbit’s Richard Armitage met untimely, often gruesome ends. It became the series’ USP, one that, without giving away specifics, they gleefully continue in the movie adaptation. I guess every national institution should observe its traditions.
Competent, watchable and the slick/gritty aesthetics and ethically murky dilemmas from the TV series are honoured. But contrary to the original series tagline, this MI-5 is a bit too 9-to-5: far too routine and neither big nor smart enough to justify its big screen incarnation, particularly set against such fierce competition. It’s hard to picture ...
Apr 29, 2015 · Spooks: The Greater Good review. Kit Harington heads up a big-screen continuation of BBC's Spooks. Here's Ryan's review of the tepid thriller, Spooks: The Greater Good... By Ryan Lambie |...
May 11, 2015 · ‘Spooks: The Greater Good’: Film Review. Peter Firth and 'Game of Thrones' alumnus Kit Harington star in Bharat Nalluri's espionage thriller, a spin-off from the long-running BBC drama shown as...
