The excessive duplicity and increasingly base morality of these characters is always interesting, even in the spy genre; it comes closer to the feel of Army of Shadows than any traditional spy stuff. A problem arises with a few character motivations and the all-too-often romantic subplot making the later events unconvincing, but not enough to mar it totally (the ending wouldn't be the same without it, for one). Oddly enough in a cast this talented, it's Richard Boone that delivers the strongest.