Simply A Masterpiece

Good concept, poorly executed.

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

I understand that this movie targets English-speaking audience behind the proverbial iron curtain. Still a female aid to prospect Russian president driving Niva SUV is something hard to believe. In fact this is pretty lame. And I am not discussing her fake boobs on top of her unbelievably horrible Russian. Guys, spend a few bucks and hire a decent voice-over, Brighton New York perhaps? As a consolation, a few counter-part Russian movies showing Americans I tried to watch, they are way more lame than this one.Russian agent-murderess, her outstanding hooter immediately and obviously reveals her evil nature. Other than that, action, suspense and everything else required for creating a spy story are all present. Still too much of a caricature. Watch The Bourne Supremacy instead.

I've seen this movie before. To be more accurate, I've seen lots of spy stories, and The November Man is nothing original, but the pacing and the plot twists make for a dandy couple hours of thrills and spills.The viewer, so often the victim of clichéd crap in the theater or on TV, can rest assured that Roger Donaldson, who has made everything from The Bounty to the awful remake of Peckinpah's The Getaway, from gory science fiction (Species) to historical fiction (Thirteen Days), will deliver a journeyman effort.Even if there are no major push-backs against the Hollywood cliché machine.There is a moment in the movie that Pierce Brosnan's character warns his protégé that he can either be "a human or a taker of human life," he can't be both. This is the sort of extra sprinkle of intelligence that makes The November Man a cut above. And the cut that happens right after that comment is enough to make the viewer gasp with horror.I watched The November Man last night, and I found myself not wanting to do chores (easy ones at that) because I wanted to immerse myself in the story.For the life of me, I can't think of a better recommendation than that. The next time USA Network shows it, sit down, put the dishes and the laundry off for awhile, and enjoy a good, solid spy story.And don't pay for it! I didn't see TNM uncut, but I don't think I missed anything critical from the edited-for-television version.

I am not Brosnan's biggest fan, but I have to say I enjoyed every minute of this.The characters are interesting and believable and the plot has enough twists and turns to keep you intrigued. There are plenty of fights, shootouts and car chases to keep the action fan in me very happy without going over the top.The pacing of the plot is well done, you are carried along with the characters and interested in finding out just what the hell is going on.The lack of massive amounts of CGI in this is also a selling point. I like a good honest action scene.Much better than some of its big budget overblown contemporaries.

I seem to watch allot of action films these days and allot of them are very similar and this includes the November man. The premise of the film sees an ex agent sent to rescue an agent until he gets mixed up in a conspiracy involving the CIA and the Russian government. Now u am a big fan of pierce brosnan even if he is in a bad film he is great and he totally owns thus film. He was an awesome action star but was also dark and tough and you see his character develop and he was a really interesting flawed action star. Luke bracey did a decent job as his former protégé and you really felt the conflict between the two of them and I did buy it. The former bond girl in this film who's name I cannot spell was also really good in this film. She was a really interesting character and she was a damaged character that was more then just an attractive girl to look at. The villains however, were just boring and cliché and didn't have anything of substance to them. The story is okay, I really liked the flashbacks and depth given to some of the characters. But, there are some pointless things in this film and the overall plot was pretty weak and boring. The script is not great, the dialogue is pretty poor but brosnan really makes it work and sometimes you forget about it. The style is a mixed bag, there are some pretty decent action scenes with some great sounding hits. However, they overuse slow motion allot and it doesn't help the action scenes at all. Overall the November man is enjoyable but it doesn't really consist on too many unique ideas.