There are things I like about this movie and also things I can say I dislike them.
The first half is really dull, dark and long. (I know, without all thoses back-up story, the the second half wouldn't be that interesting.) The childhood part is unneccessary annoying. To make the audience sympathize with Chris is totally fine. But a terrible childhood and losses of both parents later in adult life seem really cliché. Yes, the same year Ben Affleck did a movie called Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, in which Bruce Wayne's parents also died. I really hate emotion disable, highly-inteligent well-trained character. (This is personal.)
All that aside, it's special to me because it gave me weird feeling I did not have before-there's bloody killing(this movie's R rated), but there's no stupid bad guy who want to destroy the whole world. The connection between those two guys is what the movie is not like another spy film. Many things in this movie surprised me. The seemingly irrelevant interaction between our protagonist Chris and Dana Cummings (poor acting) is the his inability to communicate. But he did make it to a friend level , not a lover, which is reasonable. And the "Make Them Whole" joke is really sacastic and funny. The true identity of the brit is really astonishing and moving.
I definitely can see a sequel coming but who knows? This is a 7 out of 10.
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