This very powerful and high energy film combines American style thrills with European quality acting. The protagonist is perfectly believable in type of role Alfred Hitcock used to cast Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart in - an everyman trapped in a nightmare and finding an inner strength he never knew he had to allow him to become a hero. Ironically, in the end we realize that he was never the hero of the story at all, that in fact he has been nothing more than a puppet in a play managed by other, apparently peripheral characters. That "ah-ha" moment is well worth the price of admission. My only complaint is that the film struggles a little too hard to incorporate the plot elements of what was apparently a very complex novel, so that near the end it seems to speed up to try to tie together all the many different loose ends. As a consequence some people may not fully grasp the full complexity of the very busy plot at the first sitting. Nevertheless, it is a very powerful feature film which fully deserves a big, splashy Hollywood style promotion in the U.S.
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