I didn't really like this film as the setting was sterile and we hardly got to know the characters. The translators of a novel (third in a series) are all seated at desks in a room with no decor, like students in a school. I couldn't warm to any of the characters as they were hardly introduced to us and the fast-paced complicated plot began. I had trouble keeping up with the plot twists and found it difficult to know what was real and what was made up by the characters. For instance one scene shows everyone suspecting everyone else as the person who was leaking the story, then a later scene implies that all of them were in it together. This was referred to as an Agatha Christie type of film, yet there were no likable characters such as Poirot or Miss Marple. I like Agatha Christie films and have seen many, but this film didn't have the humour, beautiful scenery or quirky characters that those films have. I also liked the idea of a group of people translating a book into their own languages, but somehow the film lacked the sort of charm that I had imagined.
Review of The Translators
