Not as good as the the book

It feels like two movies smashed together, and that's a good thing. It takes our conceptions of the spy thriller and transforms it seamlessly into a Hitchcockian nightmare.

Plenty of suspense and thrills for those new to the story.

An old-fashioned spy yarn with plenty of action, most of which comes in the last third. The climactic scenes will keep you riveted.

As this was a pretty dull picture, I nodded off a few times, but I still got the basic concept which, admittedly, was brilliant: Donald Sutherland is trapped in a crushingly mediocre thriller and does his damnedest to escape. Yet, everytime an opportunity presents itself, the filmmakers lure poor Donald back into the fray with tits or plot contrivances. And thus began the descent into irrelevance for a man who was once one of the greatest actors in Hollywood.

A little limp, but I love it when they add successful sensitive moments to thrillers.

Great film.