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The Jigsaw Man

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The Soviets change a British double agent (Michael Caine) with plastic surgery, then send him back to England.
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Jay Scott Globe and Mail Oct 8
The Jigsaw Man seems little more than an excuse to let Caine, George and Olivier exercise their craft while director Terence Young gets high on imitating Hitchcock. Go to Full Review
Jay Carr Boston Globe 08/17/2021
Freed of the need to work at real characterization, Olivier and Caine, in their different ways, simply reach into their respective bags of actors' tricks and entertain us with style. Go to Full Review
Gene Siskel Chicago Tribune 08/17/2021
3/4
The star-studded cast... plays out its intricate story with such relish that the effect of all the confusion is not unlike that of an Agatha Christie story in which we can't wait for the final showdown. Go to Full Review
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Blu B Feb 13 It's Horrifcally Bad. Terrance Young wtf happened to you...The direction is just terrible and lifeless. If you turned the sound off on this and visually had to follow it, I don't think a normal person would have a clue what is happening. besides the final 10 minutes or so, it's just mostly people standing around talking all the time with boring lines. The acting is terrible overall. Olivier is probably the best thing here but even he isn't that good. Everyone is just saying lines emotionless with hardly any expression and it's shot in the most visually boring way possible. Nothing about this is memorable not even Caine or Olivier. The cinematography is just as bad. The music is just boring forgettable 80's stuff. Unfortnately this is probably the best thing about it. The editing and "pacing" are horrific here. It just jumps around almost incoherently setting up some kind of spy in disguise kind of plot with a girl caught in the middle for some reason that I have no idea why. And the ending chase and all I have no idea why it's happening because it's so incoherent and boring and lifeless. Stay Away from this. See more 05/13/2022 Olivier was good. Caine's Russia accent was laughable and ruined the whole experience. See more 09/04/2021 I've watched a lot of espionage thrillers in my time and I live in the hope that one of them will have a plot that I can understand. This one doesn't help. A lot of stuff is going on but it's just too complex. A shame because of the star-studded cast. See more 02/15/2012 ...and I'm being generous. See more 06/08/2010 Rather scarey that some of the top actors of the time appeared in it - either they did it for a favour or they were blackmailed into it! See more 01/18/2010 Cheap looking spy movie but at the same time it has an endearing grittiness to it. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis The Soviets change a British double agent (Michael Caine) with plastic surgery, then send him back to England.
Director
Terence Young
Producer
Benjamin Fisz
Screenwriter
Dorothea Bennett, Jo Eisinger
Production Co
Evangrove, Nitemeg
Rating
PG
Genre
Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
British English
Release Date (Streaming)
Oct 4, 2018
Runtime
1h 31m
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