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black bag is from director Stephen
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Soderberg it is a taught
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Thriller in in the a taught Thriller spy
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Thriller about people who work for an
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England uh with an All-Star cast I mean
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this cast is amazing um you've got
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Michael fosbender as George Kate
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Blanchett as Katherine they are husband
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and wife and they have a uh a an
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interesting dinner party that opens the
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film where we meet two other couples and
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there one of them is cheating uh George
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suspects that his wife Katherine may be
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cheating on him and uses the resources
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agency to uncover if she is actually
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him there are there is there are layers
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of betrayal in this culminating in a
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tense dinner party kind of bookending
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the film obviously no spoilers this is a
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smart Thriller in the in the um the vein
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of like old school this isn't isn't
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James Bond there's not a lot of action
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and it really does get into what um I
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believe the real spot world is which is
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surveillance deception uh kind of
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mundane and it's also 93 minutes long I
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was I was into it great
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performances very subtle with what's
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going on Michael fosbender is great
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Pierce broen is in it as the head of a
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department in this agency really enjoyed
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it riveting not it's not James Bond this
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is mundane James Bond but in in a good
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way like Tinker Taylor's Soldier Spy
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kind of on that level so I recommend it
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I I really enjoyed it uh Allan what did
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you think yeah you enjoyed it more than
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I did um I I'm okay with I'm okay with
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the movie I um you know it's it's the
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tone it's a very spotting tone Michael
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fast Bender's character has is very
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onone he's very one note uh he's like
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this uh this human lie detector and I
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think that's kind of the uh his his
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gimmick in this um I'll say this what I
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like about the movie I like the uh I
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like the husband and wife stuff the fact
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that that uh there that there's a
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treasonist uh in the uh there's a
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traitor in the group right and that
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traitor and Michael fast Bender's
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character has to figure out who it is
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without letting anybody know and that
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traitor certainly could be his wife and
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to me that's that's the heart of this
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movie and I I feel like I didn't get
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enough of that I I felt like I I felt
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like it was mostly about dinner parties
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and talking and uh I I just wasn't as
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you know I'm very meh on the movie um
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because I think I just wanted some
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excitement and some energy in it um and
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I I didn't feel like I got it uh this
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this is definitely one of those where
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you know if if you're a fan of Soderberg
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is very different from the Oceans 11
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series um but if you're a fan of
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Soderberg and David I guess I think it's
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NEP who did presents and has written has
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collaborated with uh sod for a long time
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you know you're gonna you're GNA find
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you some enjoyment in this I'm just not
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the movie is just not one that I'm
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overly enthusiastic about nor would I
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you know enthusiastically tell people
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you need to see this movie I went in
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with very low expectations I think the
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relationship Kate Blanchett and Michael
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fosbender they're chemistry amazing they
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like they're husband and wife that are
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so they freaking love each other they
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would kill for the other person but also
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they would kill the other person yeah if
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they were the Spy so that is like the
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way that it's it's um the way it plays
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out is is great obviously and also it's
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like 90 minutes in out boom you're done
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and even Soderberg I saw in an interview
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talk talk about like hey my last three
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movies have been 90 minutes long like
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he's he's into keeping it tight
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entertain boom you're done so and I did
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not like presents um we reviewed that a
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few weeks ago didn't like that one this
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one he did a great job back to form and
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a great cast too so I recommend it Allan
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I will say that K Blanchett is the best
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thing in the movie uh I I'm not I'm not
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enthusiastic about The Supporting Cast
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The non-asian Supporting Cast
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uh you know so and and Michael fer I
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mean anyone can play monotone throughout
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the entire movie he he brings a little
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bit of swagger to it but um if you're
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gonna see this movie it's because of
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Kate blanchett's uh performance
