Adapted from the John le Carre novel of the same name, A Most Wanted Man had its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year where reviews seemed rather muted. Directed by Anton Corbijn and featuring one of the final onscreen performances from the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, the film centers on a Chechen Muslim who illegally immigrates to Hamburg, where he gets caught up in the international war on terror.
[amz asin=”B001FA0H3E” size=”small”]Joining Hoffman is an impressive cast that includes Rachel McAdams, Willem Dafoe, Robin Wright and Daniel Bruhl and Roadside has set a July 25 release for the film.
Today the first domestic trailer premiered giving us a new look at what to expect. Check it out below and let me know what you think.
This one was among my most anticipated of 2014, but I have to admit, the less than enthusiastic Sundance response has lowered my expectations.
Hamburg, Germany: 2012. A mysterious, tortured and near-dead half-Chechen, half-Russian man on the run (Grigoriy Dobrygin) arrives in the city’s Islamic community desperate for help and looking to recover his late Russian father’s ill-gotten fortune. Nothing about this young man seems to add up; is he a victim or a thief or, worse still, an extremist intent on destruction? Drawn into this web of intrigue are a banker (Dafoe) and a young female lawyer (McAdams) who is determined to defend the defenseless. All the while, they are being watched by the brilliant, roguish chief of a covert German spy unit (Hoffman), who fights to put the pieces together as the clock ticks. In an adrenaline laced and heart-rending escalation of tension and collision, it’s not long before he becomes everyone’s most wanted man. A Most Wanted Man, a cerebral tale of intrigue in the vein of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, is also contemporary and deeply human, touching themes in love, rivalry and politics we live with every day.
