Based on a John Le Carre novel, A Most Wanted Man is one of the final films made by Phillip Seymour Hoffman before his death. Unfortunately it is not one of his most memorable.
It is in essence a spy film (I would have used the word thriller except it lacks any real thrills) It opens up with a couple of sentences about how Hamburg was where 9/11 was plotted, but then lacks any real sense that what they are doing is preventing terrorism. It has a very distinct lack of terrorist threat. I'm not saying it needs to be a cliché last minute save the world, but there is absolutely no sense that anyone they are spying on is actually plotting anything.
The storyline line is weak and lacks any sense of momentum, Seymour Hoffman's half attempt at a German Accent is pretty poor, and on the whole this is 2 hours that I would like back 3/10
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