Official Secrets Reviews

To be honest, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since it was one of the last movies starring Keira Knightley that I haven’t seen, I thought I might as well check it out. I have to admit that I had never heard of Katharine Gun before so it was definitely an interesting story and, at least, it was miles better than the really disappointing ’The Aftermath’ which I also watched recently. In fact, I mentioned Knightley but there was actually a rather big cast involved (Keira Knightley, Matt Smith, Matthew Goode, Rhys Ifans, Ralph Fiennes, Jeremy Northam) and I liked this approach. Indeed, even though the whole thing started with an albeit reckless but still courageous young woman, eventually, this movie clearly displayed that, at the time, in contrary to the US, in the UK, a vast majority of the population was actually against this war and many people were more than eager to help and support Katharine Gun. Basically, following the lead of Bush and his administration, Blair (who was at some point one of the most popular British prime ministers) and his government went pretty much all the way to make sure that the second Irak war was going to happen. Indeed, after the complete Trump nightmare, we tend to forget that W. Bush was pretty much god damned awful as well, dragging the US but also many other countries, not in one but in two wars. While the war in Afghanistan was a total mess (after a whopping 20 years, all the foreign troops are gone and, apparently, within only a few months, the Talibans will take over the country again), the war in Irak was based on some terrible lies and this movie was a great reminder. Anyway, to conclude, even if it was nothing really ground-breaking, it was still a solid thriller and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.