The Netflix trailer and description promised a cool modern spy thriller with throwbacks to 60s films of the genre with jazz on the soundtrack and a dapper Bill Nighy in the lead role. Plus it is written and directed by David Hare, so surely it'll be great, except it... isn't. It may be the only serious film I've seen in which the lead actor utilises fewer facial expressions than Roger Moore (who isn't in it, sadly). Possibly worse, there are several other great British actors in this film but they are mostly terrible - it's all so actorly - none of them seem interested in playing the character or "performing" for the viewer, instead just acting at each other (and at David Hare, no doubt). Then again, almost all the characters are upper middle class Oxbridge types with barns attached to their houses and few interests outside the civil service beyond a bit of spurious art collecting, so there isn't a lot of character to get into, I suppose. The plot is OK in a somnambulent, Graham Greene with a sense of humour bypass writing a short story on his day off to pay for a plane ticket to Frankfurt sort of way, revolving around the leaking of a classified report implicating the prime minister (Ralph Fiennes with not a lot to say). The denouement builds towards the principled Nighy facing the dilemma of jail or giving up an exemplary career, but because he looks as if he's been both botoxed and tranquillised, and his biggest action sequence involves him breaking into a jog around Cambridge while carrying a Waitrose bag, it's difficult to care what he chooses. The film is saved only by Rachel Weisz smoking rollups moodily in a mansion flat and a few atmospheric shots of London at night. I suppose I miss Hare's point, really, that modern British skullduggery bears no relation in real life to frenetic Mission Impossible-style shenanigans but instead is acted out (acted being the key word) entirely in dull offices among laconic, cynical people in even duller suits who all went to the same public school, so what should I have expected, really. 5/10 would recommend only if you're unable to watch exciting films due to a nervous disposition or similar.