Good acting. Long movie. Some people in the audience complained it was boring. I don’t think it was boring but it was very subdued. There’s little action and very little humour so I can understand why it didn’t appeal to everyone. The movie is about a Yale student who’s called upon during WWII to serve his country by joining a secret intelligence society. The group works closely with the British to topple Hitler. After the war, the group is called upon again to serve by gathering intelligence against USSR. After the war the group gets formal status and becomes CIA. The movie weaves in and out of time explaining how the Bay of Pigs defeat occured. It’s fictional but still interesting. It shows how power and control held by a very few can corrupt. The main character is not corrupted however. He sort of turns to work out of patriotism but also out of regret of past personal mistakes.

As an engineer I was impressed with all of the signal processing work the CIA was doing. It’s not like they had Matlab to figure stuff out. They slowly went through the frequencies and found what they could.

3.75/5