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

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.

When a young woman is recruited by the Mossad, she is sent to Tehran to work undercover. However she soon warms to the place and people and this may risk not only her career but also the plans of her employers. The Operative is one of those slow spy thrillers, it takes its time to build the characters and attempts are made to connect audiences to Diane Kruger's character. However the actual presentation of the story has some real pacing issues where I lost the plot many times. I get that this is meant to be a character driven film. But film makers such as Polanski (Chinatown) and Sydney Pollack (Three Days of the Condor) have shown that the plot can take a backseat for characters. But there was still considerable amount of strings being pulled in the background to make it work. The stories were complex because there were many details that need to be uncovered. The Operative is convoluted because there is very little within the story and therefore the film makers try to hide that by dragging scenes out. By having scenes that are completely pointless. Diane Kruger is an extremely talented actress and this may actually be her best performance of her career. Her character is relatable to audiences but mysterious for them to ask the question who she really is. The rest of the cast feels rather wasted with other players including Martin Freeman, pop in and out of the picture. The movie on a technical level is competent but nothing shows of a unique vision. This makes The Operative feel like a generic spy caper that isn't even exciting. Perhaps if you browse by this film on Netflix and have nothing else to do, The Operative might be a film for that occasion. Otherwise, no recommendation from me.

Good film, YES you have to pay attention. The first half of the film is excellent , it gets choppy and the narrative nearly goes off the rails.

There s a key moment in the film when the handler meets the main character's father, "The liberal Englishman academic", who is horrified of the thought of Israel. This is a position I have never seen said out loud in film or print by WESTERN media. Its tectonic. I was really surprised because Israel is an artifice, (its just no one admits it).

The acting is amazing as usual Martin Freeman steals the movie (he has nearly taken over from Phillip Seymour Hoffman) , and. Diane Kruger is EXCELLENT !

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

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.

Director Y. Adler brings novel - The English Teacher, to the screen. The movie is basically a solidly crafted spy thriller about a woman recruited by the Israeli intelligence agency to work undercover in Tehran. The tale itself - of the spy who got in too deep and let their emotions best them - is one as old as the spy thriller genre, unfortunately the movie doesn't bring a lot of new or fresh 'things' to the table.

Martin Freeman plays nicely a British Jewish man in Germany as Mossad agent who recruits very good multilingual Diane Kruger's newbie to go undercover in Iran. in that regard, "The Operative" tries to set up a friendship between Thomas (Freeman) and Rachel (Kruger), but that dynamic never truly shines on screen. The film's biggest problem is that despite being billed as a thriller, it isn't exactly, well, thrilling. Also, "The Operative" isn't enough fast-paced as spy movie, yet there is enough going on to keep your attention for the two-hour run time. Actually, film is more an espionage tale that's more John LeCarre than 007, with a complexity of plotting that might make viewers desire a second viewing.

Rating: 7- (because I love spy movies)

Decent movie although slow-paced.

The credits rolled just before the climax of the plot.

This is the equivalent of a sentence fragment... you'll want your two hours back.

The best or most action packed was the last 10 minutes of the move which just ended without any real closure. If the movie continued another half hour with a proper ending, I would have given it 8 stars. It was a shame how it ended right in the middle of a great action packed segment.

About a young Western woman, Rachel (Diane Kruger), recruited by the Mossad to go undercover in Tehran where she becomes entangled in a complex triangle with her handler , Thomas (Martin Freeman), and her subject (Cas Anvar). She faces many dangers when she falls in love with the man she has to spy on. After Rachel decides to quit and disappear, then her previous mentor Thomas tries to find out all the ways she followed, forcing her boss to seek her before she becomes a threat to Israel.

Based on Yiftach R. Atir's book, The English Teacher, Yuval Adler's "The operative" is a taut psychological thriller with suspense, a love story, intrigue, twists and turns. Tells the story of the complex relationship between an Mossad Secret Service officer and his new operative who falls in love with the person she has to spy on. Shuttling back and forth between conflicting points of view, the film is a raw portrayal of characters torn apart by romance, competing loyalties, betrayal and impossible moral dilemmas, giving an unparalleled glimpse into the dark and fascinating world of human intelligence. Dealing with current issues, about agents infiltrating and trying to prevent the development of the Iranian atomic bomb, that's why undercover agent Rachel works for Israeli intelligence Mossad, participating in a spy program against Iran's "nuclear" plans, though her mission threatens to destroy the life of her new love Farhad . Stars Diane Kruger who gives a good acting as the woman to become an agent for Mossadand sends her to Tehran on an undercover mission, when her missions become more dangerous, she decides to quit, forcing her boss adequately played by Martin Freeman to find her before she becomes a threat to Israel.

The film was well shot by cameraman Kolja Brandt in various locations: Israel, Hauptbahnhof, Leipzig, Sajonia, MMC Studios, Colonia, Renania del Norte-Westfalia, Alemania, Peterskirche, Leipzig, Sajonia, Alemania and some scenes were actually filmed in Tehran secretly. The Iranian government would not allow an Israel filmmaker to film in the streets of Tehran so director hired a German film company who then hired a French film company to shoot clandestinely scenes with hidden cameras or over the shoulders around Tehran and never told the inhabitants what it was for.

The motion picture was professionally directed by Yuval Adler, though results to be something slow , overlong and a little heavy. Filmmaker Yuval Adler es a fine craftsman and expert on thrillers, such as: ¨Sympathy for the Devil¨, ¨Shooter¨ , ¨The secrets we keep¨, ¨Bethlehem¨, among others. Rating: 6/10. Acceptable and passable.

This started off OK I suppose, but then it became confusing and boring with the flashbacks and chopped up order which was totally confusing for most viewers.

The two leads did a good job considering what they were given, so you certainly can't fault them.

I'd recommend watching this only if you really can't find something else because this is not a film that you're going to remember.

A terrible, disgusting ending to what otherwise is an okay but forgettable movie... I will give 3 thumbs up to the actors.

This was a well-written and well-acted drama. That is up until the director chickens out and ends the movie. I really HATE it when an artistic creator loses his/her vision and just abruptly ends a movie after capturing our interest in the characters and plot.

The movie was an A-. The ending a pure F and that pretty much spoiled it for me.

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 .