GamesRadar+ Verdict
It doesn’t exactly soar and the lack of levity grates, yet the Spooks movie still delivers some appealingly old-school mayhem to pass the time while we’re waiting on SPECTRE.
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“You can do good or you can do well,” sighs MI5 operative Will Holloway (Kit Harington) in the long-gestating film version of the BBC’s resolutely downbeat drama. Seasoned TV director Bharat Nalluri brings a brisk professionalism to a twisty tale whose bleak take on the spy game is carried over from the original series virtually intact.
Its relentless po-facedness invites an element of ridicule that The Greater Good, with limited resources and a seemingly endless series of treacherous double-crosses, isn’t wholly equipped to defend against.
You certainly won’t see more furrowed brows this year than in the scenes set in ‘The Grid’, one of those hi-tech HQs that want for nothing bar a decent light bulb. Add a few quips next time, though, and we might be talking franchise.
