Spooks: Big-screen upgrade for MI5 agents fails to be a hit job

Millennials can't compete with grizzled ex-Cold War spies

Film Review Most serious spy movies seem to be pretty much the same these days: a parkour-fuelled, adrenaline-pumping, extremely violent rollercoaster through an occasionally thin plot, such as the Bourne and modern Bond franchises. However, every so often, you get the quiet, studied manipulations of a film like Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, where an agent's brains are worth infinitely more than their brawn."