IThere are limits to improbability. With The Amateurthey are crossed … which does not prevent Rami Malek’s talent from making the film entertaining and the suspense effective. The fact remains that it will be difficult for the spies of the real to navigate. Almost nothing sounds right.
Starting with the atmosphere within Langley, the CIA. Most of the characters overplay or underestimate, the actors and actresses struggling to find their marks, with the notable exception of Laurence Fishburne, always exceptional and perfectly credible in the role of Colonel Henderson, known as “Hendo”, a experienced instructor of the “company”. The actor has this density that we feel perfectly among the former experienced trucks of Western intelligence services, where calm and simplicity reflect experience and excellence. Except this light in the night, a lot of clumsiness.
Let us recall the intrigue: in The Amateurthe young Charlie Heller (Rami Malek), cryptographer in the service of the CIA, lost his wife, killed by a terrorist group in an attack in London. Discovering potential ties of part of his hierarchy with criminals, he embarked on a personal vendetta through the planet, after receiving an express ground for Colonel Henderson. From the start of the film, we notably see an agent appear, Jackson O’Brien, embodied by Jon Bernthal (well known to lovers of The Walking De […] Read more
