A spy movie with a comedic twist, similar in tone to Hopscotch or Charade. The third collaboration between Carol Reed and Graham Greene, it certainly doesn't reach the heights of The Third Man but is far more satisfying than The Fallen Idol. While not laugh-out-loud hilarious, it is amusing, and is very well constructed (though perhaps slightly overlong). Alec Guinness is magnificent as always, and has a lot of great supporting talent behind him, especially Burl Ives.

A typical, solid outing from Carol Reed. It contains all of his hallmarks, yet comes across as a little bloated.

Alec Guinness accidentally navigates a vague clusterfuck of espionage in Carol Reed's comedy thriller. The confusion and paranoia are palpable, and the comedic relief is slight but welcome. Guinness never disappoints. I don't love it, but I have a feeling I may like it more with a second viewing.

This promising reteaming of Carol Reed and Graham Greene never quite gells; it's too polite to study corruption and avarice and too po-faced to generate much mirth. With so much exciting stuff going on in world cinema at the time, this comes across like a half-hearted attempt to reheat a big hit that only shows its auteurs past their prime.

As Greene would say, this is an effective "entertainment." Guinness and Coward are wonderful, Kovacs is interesting, and Burl Ives gives one of his best performances.

It's a very enjoyable suspenseful comedy. Nothing is quite outstanding, but everything is very good, from the acting to the cinematography to the wonderful plotting.

Extremely faithful adaptation of the excellent Graham Greene book

It's alright. They probably should have made this either more believable, in order to arrive at a good suspense or drama film, or funnier and more poignant if they wanted this to be a good comedy or satire. As is, Our Man in Havana is decent entertainment (with a memorable scene involving an alcoholic checkers game) but not particularly successful at anything.