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The Tailor of Panama is a smart, darkly satirical thriller with exuberant performances from Pierce Brosnan and Geoffrey Rush.
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Boorman has crafted a witty, classy and richly enjoyable morality play, which skewers the mercenary self-interest behind Anglo-American imperialism almost as an afterthought. Jun 24, 2006 | Full Review…
Boorman has crafted a witty, classy and richly enjoyable morality play, which skewers the mercenary self-interest behind Anglo-American imperialism almost as an afterthought.
Geoff Andrew
If you think the spy-thriller genre has been streamlined and spoofed and subverted until nothing new can be done to it, think again. Sep 26, 2002
If you think the spy-thriller genre has been streamlined and spoofed and subverted until nothing new can be done to it, think again.
Peter Rainer
Seems diligently assembled. May 2, 2001
Seems diligently assembled.
Stanley Kauffmann
A literate and entertaining comic thriller. Apr 20, 2001
A literate and entertaining comic thriller.
Eric Harrison
A wise, vivid, thoughtfully textured film. Apr 20, 2001 | Rating: 4/4
A wise, vivid, thoughtfully textured film.
Susan Stark
[Boorman] manages to strike exactly the right tone, which is somewhere between irony and amused incredulity. Apr 20, 2001
[Boorman] manages to strike exactly the right tone, which is somewhere between irony and amused incredulity.
Terry Lawson
Brosnan... completely alters the tone of the movie with every scene he's in, bringing a level of smarminess that makes it far more interesting than just a bureaucratic spy thriller Sep 11, 2014 | Rating: 6/10 | Full Review…
Brosnan... completely alters the tone of the movie with every scene he's in, bringing a level of smarminess that makes it far more interesting than just a bureaucratic spy thriller
Tim Brayton
Not a great movie -- for adults only. Jan 1, 2011 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Not a great movie -- for adults only.
Ellen MacKay
Funny, frisky and always on the right side of plausible. Mission accomplished. Feb 13, 2004 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Funny, frisky and always on the right side of plausible. Mission accomplished.
Harry Guerin
I had forgotten that thrillers could possibly be this much fun and rippingly intelligent at the same time. Jul 25, 2003 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
I had forgotten that thrillers could possibly be this much fun and rippingly intelligent at the same time.
Jeffrey M. Anderson
It doesn't feel like a normal espionage thriller; it feels much, much better. Aug 12, 2002 | Rating: A? | Full Review…
It doesn't feel like a normal espionage thriller; it feels much, much better.
Rob Vaux
A broad, ribald circus flagrantly in love with the English language, The Tailor bustles with swaggering, jubilant showmanship. Aug 10, 2002
A broad, ribald circus flagrantly in love with the English language, The Tailor bustles with swaggering, jubilant showmanship.
Sean Burns
Sometimes messy and a bit too implausible to be taken serious, this is not one of the best John le Carré adaptations, but still it has some good performances (Rush, Brosnan and Curtis) in an average spy story that most of the time manages to be pretty entertaining.
Super 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.
A run of the mill espionage thriller, comedy? I was hoping for a bit more. Good cast but I just didn't find the story that interesting.
The film is good enough, I guess, but it just wasn't as interesting as I thought it would be. Geoffrey Rush is always good and this is no exception here, but Brosnan seems too at-ease as a British agent (what a stretch there, huh?). Jamie Lee Curtis and Brendan Gleeson put in stellar performances.
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