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06/24/06
The Tailor of Panama (2001)
79 %
Reviews Counted: 109 Fresh: 86 Rotten:23 Average Rating: 6.9/10
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A smart and satrical thriller with an engaging cast.
Runtime: 1 hr 49 mins
Synopsis: Pierce Brosnan stars as the anti-Bond in maverick director John Boorman's adaptation of legendary spy novelist John le Carre's seamy tour of post-Noriega Panama. A British intelligence agent whose taste for gambling and other men's wives has put him on the wrong side of his bosses at MI6,... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Geoffrey Rush, Pierce Brosnan, Jamie Lee Curtis, Brendan Gleeson, David Hayman
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12/16/02
The film, for all its earnestness, snaky comedy, and would-be intelligence, never manages any real fizz.
04/20/01
Top Critic
A never-thrilling, occasionally amusing picture which wheezes badly, like a pig which has been shot but refuses to die.
04/16/01
Top Critic
Funny, frisky and always on the right side of plausible. Mission accomplished.
02/13/04
I had forgotten that thrillers could possibly be this much fun and rippingly intelligent at the same time.
07/25/03
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01/07/03
If you think the spy-thriller genre has been streamlined and spoofed and subverted until nothing new can be done to it, think again.
09/26/02
It doesn't feel like a normal espionage thriller; it feels much, much better.
08/12/02
A broad, ribald circus flagrantly in love with the English language, The Tailor bustles with swaggering, jubilant showmanship.
08/10/02
Like "Three Kings," "The Tailor of Panama" is a political satire that emerged from the studio system with its fangs intact.
06/18/02
No es una película fácil ni para aquellos con estómago débil, debido a su explícito contenido sexual, su fuerte carga inmoral, su lenguaje y algunas escenas de violencia.
06/08/02
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