The Whistle Blower

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Doug E 09/11/2022 I really like great British spy films and this one doesn't disappoint. For better or worse, unlike many of the best (Tinker Tailor Spy) the Whistleblower just has a few characters and threads to disentangle. Which makes an easier if less surprising viewing experience. See more paul d @PaulusLoZebra 11/08/2021 Simon Langton's The Whistle Blower is a very nicely done spy thriller and family drama. Michael Caine gives a great, nuanced and realistic performance. He's a former military man, now a businessman, and the widowed father of an idealistic analyst for the British spy services. A series of moles has embarrassed the spy masters and they have begun relentlessly eating their own, flouting the law in the process, in a paranoid effort to stop leaks and find traitors. This effort catches Caine's son, played well by Nigel Havers, and Caine's reaction is the heart of the story. The supporting cast is excellent, and features James Fox, Gordon Jackson, Kenneth Colley and John Guilgud. As with the vast majority of spy films since the 1970s, we must accept the premise - it is rather hackneyed and tiresome, isn't it ? - that our side is as evil and untrustworthy as our Cold War enemies. See more 05/15/2017 A very well made thriller, a little dated but enjoyable! See more 02/13/2017 Solid outing has Caine as the father of a government intelligence translator who is killed by the CIA in order to determine who is selling secrets to the Russians. Favourite part had to be the department heads encouraging staff at Government Communications Headquarters to report anything suspicious their colleagues do, sure to boost morale at the workplace. See more 03/25/2014 (***): [img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/icons/icon14.gif[/img] Interesting and with a good cast. See more 06/07/2013 the mid to late 80s saw a lot of excellent British thillers such as The Fourth Protocol,Defense of the realm and on TV Edge of Darkness. This film may not be as good as those but thanks to a straong central performance from Micahel Caine there is enough here to sustain interest . Caine plays Frank Jones an ex army man who fought in Korea and loves and belives in his country. His son Robert played by Nigel Havers is less sure of his national pride and isdetermined to expose dastardly goings on at the highest level. When Robert is found dead it soon emerges that it wasnt suicide and Frank seesk out the turth behind his death. Caine was making some truly awful pictures in the 80s for money and not merit, but here he gives a great performance as a man who when the blinkers are taken off sees that there is soemthing rotten at the heart of his great nation. The supporting cast includes James Fox as a dapper spymaster and Gordon Jackson as a grizzled spook. The film does creak in places and the ending is a little to warpped up for my liking but on the whole this is another solid British thriller. See more Read all reviews

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