Average Rating: 6.8/10
Reviews Counted: 112
Fresh: 86 | 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: 33
Fresh: 30 | 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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Average Rating: 3/5
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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
R, 1 hr. 49 min.
Drama, Action & Adventure, Art House & International, Mystery & Suspense, Comedy
Mar 30, 2001 Wide
Sep 11, 2001
$13.1M
Columbia Pictures
All Critics (119) | Top Critics (34) | Fresh (89) | Rotten (26) | DVD (20)
If you think the spy-thriller genre has been streamlined and spoofed and subverted until nothing new can be done to it, think again.
Seems 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.
A broad, ribald circus flagrantly in love with the English language, The Tailor bustles with swaggering, jubilant showmanship.
I really don't think this does John le Carre's novel any justice at all but who would have thought John Boorman would have messed it up!? Geoffrey Rush is very good as always but apart from Harold Pinter in an inspired bit of casting, it is a bad day in the office for everyone concerned. A really interesting story but
December 15, 2010Super Reviewer
An intriguing tale of espionage and coercion in Central America. *Geoffrey Rush never ceases to amaze me and his performance here is no exception.
January 13, 2009
Super Reviewer
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