Gary Oldman as George Smiley in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy returns to the real world with an intelligent and sensitive portrait of a character that totally belongs to Alec Guinness. Over the last decade Oldman has appeared in fantasy films [Batman, LOTR, Red Riding Hood], video games [Medal of Honor, Call of Duty, The Legend of Spyro] and as voice in animation [Kung Fu Panda, Planet 51]. He has spent the last 10 years raising his two sons and sticking close to home in L.A. TTSS is a triumphant return serious film with a performance that so dominates the movie that you forget that he shares the screen with Colin Firth, John Hurt, Tom Hardy and others, all turning nuanced portraits of the British Intelligence Services upper echelon at a time when the Cold War threatened to crush it with double agents and internal strife. This is a tight, slowly paced [if it moved faster you would lose track of everything and everyone], dark and dastardly drama of a house in disarray. It knocked my sox off.
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