Our Kind of Traitor

2016 "Who can you trust with the truth?"

Our Kind of Traitor

6.2 | 1h48m | R | en | Thriller

A young Oxford academic and his attorney girlfriend holiday in Morocco. They bump into a Russian millionaire who owns a peninsula and a diamond watch. He wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the lovers on a tortuous journey to the City of London and its unholy alliance with Britain's intelligence establishment, to Paris and the Alps.

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Released: July. 01,2016 | Released Producted By: StudioCanal , Potboiler Productions Country: United Kingdom Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:

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Cast

Ewan McGregor , Stellan Skarsgård , Damian Lewis

Director

Emily Durtnall

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StudioCanal , Potboiler Productions

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Cast

Ewan McGregor

as Perry Makepeace

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Stellan Skarsgård

as Dima

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Damian Lewis

as Hector

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Reviews

sunbeambordercollie Fell asleep after 1/2 hour. Unlikely opening premise (would YOU go to a excessive party by that guy after knowing him a few minutes?) and zero action. This is supposed to be a thriller? Bah.

claudinha-schulz Very good entertainment. Recommend it for a Friday evening. Good actors, good trama.

SnoopyStyle College professor Perry MacKendrick (Ewan McGregor) and lawyer wife Gail are vacationing in Marrakech despite his cheating. He reluctantly accepts the mysterious Dima (Stellan Skarsgård)'s invitation to his daughter's birthday party. Dima reveals that he launders money for the Russian mob and recruits him to contact MI6 upon returning to London. British agent Hector (Damian Lewis) convinces Perry to meet up with Dima in Paris.I have trouble believing Perry would go to Paris. I have even more trouble believing that he would bring Gail. I have even more trouble believing that he would leave the museum in that guy's car. I can't explain how much trouble I have believing that he would take Gail on that trip. So it goes. It's difficult to see this every man taking obvious risks for someone he barely knows. These are big risks and worst, he's taking along his wife whom he just cheated on. There are ways to provide Perry with good personal reasons for his actions but this movie doesn't set them up. He is horribly naive. He needs to say smarter things so that he's not simply going along with Hector.This movie doesn't have the action to be thrilling. It's also not quite smart enough to be a good espionage drama. There are good aspects with some tension. The actors are all first rate. It could be rewritten with some better action set pieces to be exciting or it could elevate Hector's enemies to make a smart political espionage drama. It's not quite at that level.

gasrunning While this very modern film has an easily digestible plot and otherwise interesting characters, it suffers from being overloaded with leftist themes to foist upon the viewer.The white husband has been unfaithful and now suffers from low self esteem while waiting for his wife to appreciate him again. The wife on the other hand is a brilliant, intelligent, successful lawyer; and she's black of course. The movie is careful to inform us early on that she is the real bread winner in the family. When the husband is handed a legal document to read, his wife snatches it away as though he were a child.In typical Hollywood fashion, all the women in this film are strong, smart and level-headed. All the "bad guys" and violent characters are white males.It's a shame I have to give this film a single score, there should be one for it's cinematic qualities and another for it's globalist values.