The Operative

In essence, a decent spy film. Interesting, in my case, for Diane Kruger and Martin Freeman. The end can be the most satisfactory. A film about Iran, with not so bad romance story and not the worst portrait of independent woman. Good acting, decent crafted story .

This was the first movie which had real scenes of Iran. Streets, people, accents, culture every thing was completely accurate. If you don't know anything about Iran and iranian people, you can trust every thing you watch in this movie. Of course some small details in streets, wasn't quite the same, but it was close. Any way I think it is underrated and I don't understand why. It's not boring and I enjoyed watching it.

Excellent slow boil espionage thriller. Flawless performances, brilliant screenplay and a slap in the face to expected norms.

I think this movie shows relatively realistic image of Iran , Iranian people and clash between Iran and Israel. As an Iranian I enjoyed the movie. unlike some of similar movies about Iran , all Iranian characters are good hearted people with no Iranian interrogators or such. also I like that -despite having Israeli production- the involvement of Mossad on Iranian scientist assassination and sabotaging Iran's nuclear program is depicted without hesitation. Acting was good and Iran's streets and atmosphere shown believable and almost perfect ... there is no Opel Astra police cars or old Volvo Station wagons in Iran though. I gave is 8 of 10.

Good Cast. But the whole film built up to a climax that never happened. Ultimately dissapointing.