10 Philippine Showbiz Today
Our Kind of Traitor (PG) ***
Wannabe Bond!
Espionage can make for murky bedfellows. Corruption and greed
weave a mighty tangled web in Our Kind of Traitor. Tandem producers
Lionsgate Films and EOne Entertainment got it right for this not so
fine set of affairs now circling the wagons on DVD
Chance encounters can prove fatal. On a stopover in of all places
Marrakesh the mystery deepens for a British Couple. Well matched are
Ewan McGregor and Naomie Harris. Do the right thing is in The DNA
of this mild mannered professor whose Boy Scout attitude leads to
some major jeopardy for him and his alluring wife.
During a chance meeting with an outwardly friendly bear of a
Russian, the pair are thrust into the murky world of crime and espionage.
Devised by master spy novelist John Le Carre, the stakes are sky high
in this tale of bribery, knives and justice, Russian style. Able to take it
and keep on coming is Stellan Skarsgard as a gregarious mobster
who just wants the best for her family.
Trappings of the rich and famous are front and centre here as an
opulent lifestyle masks a dark secret winding its way into the upper
echelons of British society. Empires are lost, empires are won serving
up a delightful journey into decadence and tribal Justice. Drop-dead
gorgeous scenery of some delicious European playgrounds almost
want you to pack your bags and leave.●
November 22 - December 7, 2016
Jan. 22-Feb.7, 2015