Less obviously a mess than the previous Ludlum adaptation, ‘The Osterman Weekend,’ but also significantly more dull.
Like OW, it features a wildly convoluted plot where no one is who they claim to be, except Caine’s character — who presents himself as a dullard who doesn’t know what’s going on and never deviates from that course, traipsing around Europe having stuff explained to him, one plot biscuit at a time. It also features a few absurd sequences of excessive nudity (‘cause Berlin, man, they’re all crazy, amirite?), some extremely loud music cues, and at one point, a character says ‘Please don’t attempt anything too cinematic,’ a maxim that pretty much everyone involved seems to have taken a touch too literally.

Less obviously a mess than the previous Ludlum adaptation, ‘The Osterman Weekend,’ but also significantly more dull.
Like OW, it features a wildly convoluted plot where no one is who they claim to be, except Caine’s character — who presents himself as a dullard who doesn’t know what’s going on and never deviates from that course, traipsing around Europe having stuff explained to him, one plot biscuit at a time. It also features a few absurd sequences of excessive nudity (‘cause Berlin, man, they’re all crazy, amirite?), some extremely loud music cues, and at one point, a character says ‘Please don’t attempt anything too cinematic,’ a maxim that pretty much everyone involved seems to have taken a touch too literally.