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The Courier

What I liked: I liked the friendship that developed between the main characters. I like to believe that they had the same resolving interactions as were in the movie. I liked the trade craft when we got to see it, much less flashy than in fiction films but apparently effective. I like that the probability of me ever ending up in a Russian prison is very very low. Kind of like the probability of me ever being on a nuclear submarine. These are both things that I very much want to avoid. I also liked that, probably in keeping with history, there were more than two spies in the movie. Admittedly, it did look a bit unbalanced East vs West but I did appreciate that there were spies, plural, and some degree of counter intelligence. 

What I didn't: Is that really how you get recruited to the CIA? It seems awfully...mundane and risky. Like maybe they contact you first with someone who isn't in charge of the Europe office. I also think it is quite risky to have very high ranking intelligence personnel involved in field work, immunity or no. I also think it would be a good idea to have an extraction plan developed for a high placed defector sometime before you need it. 

Who should watch this? People who like spy movies. People who like Benedict Cumberbatch. People who will not be crushed that not everything in the Cold War was nice. 

Would I watch it again? I was glad to see it, like most spy movies the rewatch potential is low. 

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