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I wasn't expecting much from this flick but since I always had a weak spot for Michael Caine, I thought I might as well check it out. Basically, it was one of those cold war thrillers that Caine used to make in the 80's but, to be honest, I thought it was pretty weak. To my surprise, I discovered later on that Roger Ebert really liked it a lot. Sure, I have to admit it, there were some good things, some of it was actually pretty believable and it, really slowly though, started to grow on me after a while but I just didn't care much for the whole thing. Indeed, I thought the plot was just really murky and also way too slow to take off. Seriously, half of the running time was about providing a set-up and what happened after, even though it was easier to follow, was barely more interesting. At least, at some point, when Caine's character finally knew what was actually going on but couldn't do anything about it, that was a bleak but realistic ending but, unfortunately, it wasn't actually the end and they added some rather underwhelming cowboy stuff. To conclude, even though it wasn't really awful, I thought it was just really weak and I don't think it is really worth a look.
5/10
