Third Falcon

What I liked about this spy movie set in Estonia is that it shows why Russians don't want missiles in their back yard. Espionage in this film is low key, more Third Man than Jason Bourne. It seems real that a hapless investigator would be sent from Brussels to find a missing MI6 agent rather than James Bond. The fact that she is female gives the movie a harmless feel until things start to go wrong. Sure, there are some strange moments like when they find themselves in an Estonian theater, but that somehow had echoes of The Thirty Nine Steps. It seems that there are also elements of The Maltese Falcon with the plotting, and a scene that could have been stolen from Casablanca that is an entertaining interlude, but at the end of it all, Third Falcon has its own message for our times. The Russians are coming, and Europe is not ready to stop them. Interesting film.