The night manager

Year of release : 2016

Run time : 1h, 6 episodes

 

Genre : Tv series / Mini series / Thriller / Spy fiction

 

Cast : Tom Hiddleston, Hugh Laurie

 

 

The series are adapted from John le Carre's novel of the same name, published in 1993.

 

The night manager, Pine, is asked by one of his Egypt hotel guests to copy print some very important and suspicious documents. The woman,the mistress of the son of a very important and rich family in Egypt and England, leaves the copy with him,and takes the original back to where she took it from.

 

Very soon after, the woman appears with half of her face bludgeoned,and asks him to whom did he share the information with.

Pine takes her to a safe place,but soon he is told England is not gonna help her in any way,as the family is very influential in the country and invests a lot of money in it.

Sophie ,by her name,goes back to the hotel room she was staying in,and right after,Pine finds her beaten to death in the suite.

 

Four years later ,Pine works as the night manager for a hotel in Switzerland and has to welcome the partner in crime of the very rich and influential family,a billionaire seen as a philanthropist who actually is involved in destabilizing countries and selling weapons of mass destruction, Richard Roper.

 

He contacts the woman he talked with four years before ,from an intelligence agency,and becomes their covert operative.

 

 

 

Episode 2

 

The intelligence officer he talked to before,contacts him,and convinces him to go undercover into Roper's circle,in order to take him down.

 

Pine is given a fake past,full of crime,and of name changing.

 

In order to be let into Roper's crowd,the intelligence agency fake the kidnapping of his son,and Pine comes to the rescue. In order to look real,Pine and the two pretend kidnappers beat each other badly.

 

I liked the fact Roper's girlfriend seems to care for his kid,as she has one of her own,and probably sees her kid in his. I really liked the scene in which she offers herself in order to save the kid.

 

 

 

Episode 3

 

Roper's second in command is skeptical about Quince,aka Pine,so Pine tells his boss to get rid of him.

 

The second in command has a bit of a problem with alcohol,and that is,at parties,he drinks,and talks too much. Quince makes sure he plants the seeds of doubt in Roper and his trusted people's heads,that his best man might be running his mouth when drunk.

 

 

 

Episode 4

 

The second in command is out of Quince's way,so he drinks a lot since he doesn't have anything to do,as Roper doesn't take him with him anymore.

 

Quince slowly but surely,becomes a trusted asset,as he gains Roper's girlfriend's trust,his son loves him,and solves a few disputes,one involving the former best man.

 

 

 

Episode 5

 

 

Pine kills Corky, the only one who saw through him from the getgo, not necessarily to fix the mole problem,but because Corky caught him and is about to tell on him.

 

 

 

Episode 6

 

Roper starts to suspect Birch and Jed are spies,and asks his partner's wife to spy on her.

 

 

The acting was good,the actors unattractive. The lead actress ( at 1,90 metres tall )was towering over everyone,and she wore ugly outfits.

 

The story,to be honest bored me,as I don't like spy movies. At times the movie was filmed from such angles,as if the camera was hiding behind someone's head,or something,and it was annoying.

 

The characters weren't fleshed out,they got into relationships very fast,telling us after, it was love,although everything came and went very fast,and it didn't feel real. At the end of the movie I still didn't know what the characters were about,Jed has a son but he never appears in the picture,she doesn't even talk about him.

 

What I liked was the Egyptian hotel,especially the Hatshepsut suite.

 

The series are streaming on Amazon Prime Video,and are for buy on Amazon Prime Video, Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, Vudu.

 

Rating : Worth a watch !