
When a brutally-tortured half-Chechen, half-Russian immigrant turns up in Hamburg's Islamic community laying claim to his father's ill-gotten fortune, both German and US security agencies take a close interest: as the clock ticks down and the stakes rise, the race is on to establish this most wanted man's true identity--oppressed victim or destruction-bent extremist? Based on John le Carré's novel, A MOST WANTED MAN is a contemporary, cerebral tale of intrigue, love, rivalry... (Full plot summary below)
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When a brutally-tortured half-Chechen, half-Russian immigrant turns up in Hamburg's Islamic community laying claim to his father's ill-gotten fortune, both German and US security agencies take a close interest: as the clock ticks down and the stakes rise, the race is on to establish this most wanted man's true identity--oppressed victim or destruction-bent extremist? Based on John le Carré's novel, A MOST WANTED MAN is a contemporary, cerebral tale of intrigue, love, rivalry, and politics that prickles with tension right through to its last heart-stopping scene.
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| GuardianPeter BradshawIt is a commanding performance from Hoffman, and an overwhelmingly satisfying note for this actor to end on. |
| Electric SheepDavid CairnsNo doubt the doom-laden setting and tragic denouement are true to the reality of these situations, but the audience would appreciate some surprises. |
| Cinema em CenaPablo VillaçaUm thriller de espionagem feito por e para adultos. |
| Daily Telegraph (UK)Tim RobeyDirected beautifully, Hoffman seems to have the whole film under lock and key, but pads around cagily, watchfully, as if prowling the perimeter to stop an imminent burglary. |
| Killer Movie ReviewsAndrea ChaseChallenging, intelligent, it emcompasses the best and worst of human nature with unflinching precision and wistful melancholy |
| Washington PostMichael O'SullivanAlthough the cast is uniformly fine, Hoffman shines in a role that demands not showmanship, but a kind of complexity and contradiction that can be rendered only through the kind of dull character details that he excelled in, accumulating them from the inside out. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperA Most Wanted Man works as a crowd-pleaser and as a believable reflection of how these fictional events might well play out in the real world. |
| Entertainment WeeklyJeff LabrecqueCrackles with a jigsaw-puzzle intelligence and features a superbly subtle lead performance from the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, who single-handedly gooses the post-9/11 procedural through some of its slower patches. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzSuperbly plays out as a backstreet atmospheric subtle topical cat-and-mouse espionage game. |
| Laramie Movie ScopeRobert RotenIn one of his last films films to be released, the late Philip Seymore Hoffman gives another of his pitch-perfect performances in this twisted spy yarn set in Hamburg, Germany. |