Turks & Caicos

Turks & Caicos

2014 ""
Turks & Caicos
Turks & Caicos

Turks & Caicos

6.5 | 1h35m | en | Drama

The second movie in David Hare's Johnny Worricker trilogy. Loose-limbed spy Johnny Worricker, last seen whistleblowing at MI5 in Page Eight, has a new life. He is hiding out in Ray-Bans on the Caribbean islands of the title, eating lobster and calling himself Tom Eliot (he’s a poet at heart). We’re drawn into his world and his predicament when Christopher Walken strolls in as a shadowy American who claims to know Johnny. The encounter forces him into the company of some ambiguous American businessmen who claim to be on the islands for a conference on the global financial crisis. When one of them falls in the sea, their financial PR seems to know more than she's letting on. Worricker soon learns the extent of their shady activities and he must act quickly to survive when links to British prime minister Alec Beasley come to light.

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Released: March. 20,2014 | Released Producted By: BBC Film , Heyday Films Country: United Kingdom Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
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The second movie in David Hare's Johnny Worricker trilogy. Loose-limbed spy Johnny Worricker, last seen whistleblowing at MI5 in Page Eight, has a new life. He is hiding out in Ray-Bans on the Caribbean islands of the title, eating lobster and calling himself Tom Eliot (he’s a poet at heart). We’re drawn into his world and his predicament when Christopher Walken strolls in as a shadowy American who claims to know Johnny. The encounter forces him into the company of some ambiguous American businessmen who claim to be on the islands for a conference on the global financial crisis. When one of them falls in the sea, their financial PR seems to know more than she's letting on. Worricker soon learns the extent of their shady activities and he must act quickly to survive when links to British prime minister Alec Beasley come to light.

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Bill Nighy , Christopher Walken , Winona Ryder

Director

Stevie Herbert

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BBC Film , Heyday Films

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Khun Kru Mark Walken at his most menacing, Nighy at his quirkiest, Ryder at her maddest and more besides...Despite the overly polished screenplay, this movie works well. The plot is a bit vague and it's not always clear who's who and why people are doing what they do, but the mighty strength of the characters make up for all of that.There are no weak links and each of the cast members manage to make the most of their onscreen time. Imagine if the CIA really did have dangerously unstable geniuses (like Christopher Walken) running the show. Maybe they do!The world is in the unsafe hands of super-rich corporate mobsters and they are drawn together to hammer out a way to launder their billions. The governments of the US and the UK are in on the ruse and want either a piece of the action, or some sort of comeuppance. The corruption rises pretty high which forces our Bond type hero (Bill Nighy) to play his cards ultra-cautiously while at the same time, reviving an old affair.It helps that the scenery of Turks & Caicos play a role, too. It's a luxury playground with natural beauty which contrasts starkly with the nefarious human interference.The pace probably handicaps this for younger viewers and the violence is implied rather than played out. But for older folk, it's a treat.Riveting stuff!
dierregi ... or "A series of fortunate events". This is part two of a trilogy about Johnny Warricker, a disgraced secret service agent, who was forced to leave England to hide from his powerful enemies. However, each movie is sort of self-standing.According to Johnny, Turks & Caicos was the destination of the first flight out of the UK, when he had to leave the country in a hurry. How lucky for him that his first choice was not a cheap flight to Bucharest or Tenerife, but the very upmarket British protectorate in the Caribbean.From the lush island, the plot unravels, following a series of circumstances that could be easily described as very improbable.First: a CIA agent passing by a beach where Johnny lounges, happens to recognize him and to ask his help for an operation. Second: the CIA operation/job/mission is about the same dirty deeds Johnny was investigating in London and that caused his downfall. Thanks to the CIA, Johnny has the chance of doing more damage. Fancy that...Third: Johnny's ex girlfriend is a high-level employee of the company the CIA is investigating and her boss readily discloses top secret information to her, just because she asked him. What are the chances?Anyhow, thanks to all these "chances" Johnny manages to cover up a murder, get back with his ex, re- distribute some dirty money, fool the CIA and move towards new adventures.Still, good entertainment for a cold Thursday night.
begob One spy spots another spy on a Caribbean beach and, through a series of further coincidences, they take on a bunch of corrupt business types.I realised at the end this was a sequel to another contrived spy outing for the hero - not so memorable. Big problems with the story, relying so much on coincidence, and the central plot point is hardly earth shattering. Wordy script with its emphasis on the nasty security state that we've slipped into over the past ten years, and yet it lacks a killer speech to reveal the essence of this cruel and treacherous world, and shows no violence at all to convince us of the threat posed.The intro scene looks completely amateur, as if they weren't sure where to start, and the camera direction ain't great, with so many close ups botched as the characters light endless cigarettes. There was one theatrical scene with unnatural dialogue, and the ickyness of the beach scene at the end revealed the simplistic approach to a terribly complex intersection between the power of the state and the power of money. So I'm not a fan of this writer/director.I do like the actors, but ... Nighy seems to flip between assured calm and self-consciousness. Walken has his old man pants on, and Carter was a bit at sea with her reaction in the shake down scene. Ryder is very good in close up - big eyes and facial ticks that suggest a deep pit of pain.The music was OK, nothing special - and what was with that song over the end credits? Overall - underpowered story that doesn't even look interesting.
paul2001sw-1 David Hare's 'Turcs and Caicos' is a low key drama about international intelligence, dodgy businessmen and corrupt politicians. Bill Nighy plays a renegade gentleman spy who is strangely irresistible to women half his age; Helena Bonham Cater, meanwhile, is simply too glamorous to be serious in her role. Almost all of the key plot developments occur off-screen, and, as with most of Hare's work, there's a lot of talking around the subject that never quite gets to the point. What saves it is the quality of that talk: it's theatrical, but there's a beautiful rhythm to it. To compare it to the work of another playwright named David, namely David Mamet, the dialogue is a lot less stylised, but easier on the ear, almost poetic in places. And this is enough to make the piece stand out from the vast majority of contemporary drama.