Fans will hail the return of Gary Oldman, Michael Caine, and Morgan Freeman to the fray, together with the trusty Bat-pod, which gives perhaps the sleekest performance of all.
Gary Oldman, who plays Dracula, is perfectly opaque and remote in the seduction scenes: he has no sex appeal. (As the old Dracula, leering wrinkedly beneath a crullerlike coiffure, Oldman has his moments, though.) The picture just keeps coming at us indefatigably, unstoppably, as if it were pursuing us through eternity, and it leaves us feeling mysteriously drained.
Actors Ed Harris and Gary Oldman are among the big names that provided character voices for the game.
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Led by militant nationalist Korshunov (played by the excellent and eerie Gary Oldman), they threaten to execute one passenger every half hour until their hero, imprisoned General Alexander Radek, is released.
Yet this version of "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" turns on the presence of Mr. Oldman, and he is an actor of great experience and accomplishment who has finally found a film that fully deserves him.
In the new movie, the glasses become time frames: Oldman has one pair, horn-rimmed, to show that we are in flashback, with Smiley still working for Control, and another, larger pair to make it clear that we have skipped ahead.
And this is why Commissioner Gordon in The Dark Knight Rises is played by Gary Oldman and not by Joe Last-Minute Replacement.
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But its monsters grow tackier by the minute first giant metallic ladybirds, then gun-toting rhinos, while Gary Oldman's space buccaneer cradles a familiar that is part Dumbo, part Babar the elephant.
Gary Oldman can't break out of the underwritten role of Jim Gordon, one of the few honest cops on Gotham's police force.
Tomas Alfredson, who made his name with the hauntingly good vampire film Let The Right One In (2008), sat Oldman down and opened a page in le Carre's book.
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The picture is juicily well acted, however, particularly by Oldman, whose congressman is physically mediocre in every way yet possesses a dour firepower that never lets up.
Gary Oldman stars as a village elder who (judging from the trailer) is not above sacrificing Seyfried to the wolf.
Oldman is sporting a pink shirt, his Commissioner Gordon moustache (he is currently filming the latest Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises) and a pair of heavy-framed, light brown glasses, which match the colour of his hair.
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This is not to suggest the Bard of Hogwarts is up there with the Bard of Avon, only that her words turn into music coming out of the mouths of such performers as Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes, Gary Oldman, Alan Rickman, Robbie Coltrane and Miranda Richardson.
Mr. Oldman's emphasis is on self-containment, but what his Smiley seems to contain is all the wisdom of a blighted world.
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