a5c7b9f00b An ex-C.I.A. operative is brought back in on a very personal mission and finds himself pitted against his former pupil in a deadly game involving high level C.I.A. officials and the Russian President-elect.
In Lausanne, Switzerland, the retired CIA agent Peter Devereaux is visited by his former chief John Hanley that convinces him to extract the agent Natalia Ulanova from Russia. Natalia is the assistant of the Russian candidate for President Arkady Federov and has collected evidences of war crimes committed by the candidate during the Chechen War and requested Peter to help her. However, during the operation, CIA chief Perry Weinstein believes that Natalie has been captured by the Russians and orders agent David Mason to kill her. Natalie gives photos and the name Mira Filipova to Peter before dying and the agent informs Hanley. Peter kills the CIA agents, but when he sees Mason, he spares the agent that was trained by him. When Mason meets Weinstein, he learns that Peter and Natalie had a love affair in the past and the agent is assigned to kill him. Peter heads to Belgrade where he saves the social worker Alice Fournier that might know where Mira is from Federov's assassin Alexa and from Mason. Soon Peter learns dirty secrets about Arkady Federov and the CIA and has to flee with Alice to save their lives and expose the crimes to the world.
Creepy scenario kindling world aggression. USA and Hollywood are only able to taunt others. Low level. And this is typical empty action movie like 1.000.000 other. This movie includes a lot of boring pattens from stupid action movies. Pierce Brosnan is just a fistful of pathos and no more. No IQ, no talent, no actors play. Only posing. Sorry of critics but I cant keep silence. Disgusting! I spend time to watch this, and I lost a big part of my time to watch nothing. I have stopped to watch Hollywood movies 2 years age and I have made exception for that film. It was worst rest in my life. And illogical chain of events in "THE November MAN" frozen me!!!
When you start watching a movie like this one you already exactly know what you are going to see. A lot of action, shootings, highly trained secret agents that are able to avoid being hit once by a bullet, other highly trained secret agents that get immediately shot by the hero of the story without them hitting anybody despite being highly trained, a lot of fight scenes were the hero can get hit severely without any major injuries while he only has to give one punch to disable somebody for good, car pursuits, double crossed agents, corrupt politicians etc... Everyone knows it and still everybody watches it. I did it also because sometimes I like that kind of movie, with a lot of action, and still knowing that everything is going to be very exaggerated. The story is okay with enough twists to keep you entertained. The actors are all good, even though I have difficulties to see Brosnan as a killer. To me he just has not the profile. Nevertheless it's an okay movie if you like that kind of genre.
A humorless, muddled, bloody and generally unpleasant thriller.