The Tailor of Panama (2001)
Average Rating: 6.8/10
Reviews Counted: 113
Fresh: 87 | Rotten: 26
The Tailor of Panama is a smart, darkly satirical thriller with exuberant performances from Pierce Brosnan and Geoffrey Rush.
Average Rating: 7.3/10
Critic Reviews: 35
Fresh: 32 | Rotten: 3
The Tailor of Panama is a smart, darkly satirical thriller with exuberant performances from Pierce Brosnan and Geoffrey Rush.
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Set amidst the controversy of the handover of the Panama Canal from America to Panama in late 1999, this espionage thriller follows seductive British spy Andrew Osnard (Pierce Brosnan), who has found himself recently banished to Panama. When Osnard stumbles into a tailor shop, he meets Harry Pendel (Geoffrey Rush), a garrulous sort with an unmatched penchant for "fluence" -- that is, fabricating wild tales with real-life details. Osnard threatens to expose his shady past, until Pendel agrees to
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Cast
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Pierce Brosnan
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Geoffrey Rush
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Jamie Lee Curtis
Louisa Pendel -
Brendan Gleeson
Mickie Abraxas -
Catherine McCormack
Francesca -
Leonor Varela
Marta -
Harold Pinter
Uncle Benny -
David Hayman
Luxmore -
Mark Margolis
Rafi Domingo -
Martin Ferrero
Teddy -
John Fortune
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All Critics (120) | Top Critics (37) | Fresh (90) | Rotten (26) | DVD (21)
If you think the spy-thriller genre has been streamlined and spoofed and subverted until nothing new can be done to it, think again.
Top CriticSeems diligently assembled.
Elegant, sophisticated and very funny in a sly, subtle, wordy way.
A literate and entertaining comic thriller.
A wise, vivid, thoughtfully textured film.
[Boorman] manages to strike exactly the right tone, which is somewhere between irony and amused incredulity.
Not a great movie -- for adults only.
Director John Boorman (The Emerald Forest) has given us another fantasy-shattering glimpse into a world that's so far apart from our own.
Funny, frisky and always on the right side of plausible. Mission accomplished.
I had forgotten that thrillers could possibly be this much fun and rippingly intelligent at the same time.
It doesn't feel like a normal espionage thriller; it feels much, much better.
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