Completely ridiculous, though super endearing. We're asked to believe some serious absurdities, like that one can escape from an English country-side police station with a paper- clip, or that a handful of FBI agents, as opposed to a full swat team with aerial observation, would move in on a major CIA turncoat who's giving away national secrets and is holed up in a country house. But it does still manage to be a mock- solid satire of the intelligence game and the American perception of the CIA in the wake of the disillusioning 1970's. It's also a pretty engaging cat and mouse chase and of course, as always, Matthau gives us a hell of a likable central character to root for. If you dig real-world spy flicks and you don't mind rolling your eyes at a few logic burps, this is a really good time.
Review of Hopscotch
