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This film in a nutshell is about the high cost of spying to the spy. When you watch a Bond film..you never feel his life has been lessened in anyway, rather it's enhanced by it.

It this film the real heart of it is just that.

The toll it takes on the spy.

I thought that was refreshing and closer to the mark. Look at the real life case of Valerie Plame, one of our homegrown spies. It's always portrayed with such glamour. This rings truer.

Great ensemble acting...Oldman is brilliant as is Mark Strong and Colin Firth in supporting roles. Bravo!

Loosely based on Noel Coward play of the same name, directed by Aussie director Stephan Elliot (yes of Priscilla Queen of the Desert), Easy Virtue is simply a cinematic joy. It sings with wit and high camp. The music is infectious...all ala 1920's.

Jessica Biel does quite nicely with her 'thorn in the side' role of the wicked divorcée/race car driver who steals the heart of Ben Barnes' character John Whitakker, son of British country aristocrats, much to his mother's (Kristin Scott Thomas) displeasure. She is a welcome breath of sultry air to his father though, played perfectly by Colin Firth. My question is why aren't there more movies like this? It's at the Tribeca film Fest now and hopefully will open to wider distribution if well received!

This film had an innocence to it that you rarely see anymore. It harkened back to the bygone days before CGI.

I think the screenplay could have been better...the book had more character development...there was the troubled past of the hero Aurelius--the loss of his parents at the hands of Wulfila...which had been buried in his memory...and the child he saved who turns out to be Mira, his comrade in arms.

Colin Firth stepped up to the plate as the warrior Aurelius. I would have liked to have seen more of his relationship with Mira.

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