a5c7b9f00b Peter Devereaux is a former CIA agent who is asked by the man he worked for to extract a woman who is in Russia and is presently close to a man running for President, who is believed to have committed crimes during the Chechen war. She can give them the name of someone who can prove it. His friend says that she will only come to him. So he goes and she gets the info and tries to get out but the man finds out and tries to stop her. In Lausanne, Switzerland, the retired CIA agent Peter Devereaux is visited by his former chief John Hanley that convinces him to extract the agent Natalia Ulanova from Russia. Natalia is the assistant of the Russian candidate for President Arkady Federov and has collected evidences of war crimes committed by the candidate during the Chechen War and requested Peter to help her. However, during the operation, CIA chief Perry Weinstein believes that Natalie has been captured by the Russians and orders agent David Mason to kill her. Natalie gives photos and the name Mira Filipova to Peter before dying and the agent informs Hanley. Peter kills the CIA agents, but when he sees Mason, he spares the agent that was trained by him. When Mason meets Weinstein, he learns that Peter and Natalie had a love affair in the past and the agent is assigned to kill him. Peter heads to Belgrade where he saves the social worker Alice Fournier that might know where Mira is from Federov&#39;s assassin Alexa and from Mason. Soon Peter learns dirty secrets about Arkady Federov and the CIA and has to flee with Alice to save their lives and expose the crimes to the world. I saw &quot;The November Man&quot;, starring Pierce Brosnan-He did 4 Bond movies from Goldeneye to Die Another Day, Remington Steele_tv; Luke Bracey- G.I.Joe:Retaliation, Home and Away_tv; Olga Kurylenko-Vampire Academy, Quantum of Solace; Bill Smitrovich-Ted, Iron Man and Will Patton-Falling Skies_tv, The Punisher_2004. <br/><br/>This is a spy movie based on a book written by Bill Granger called &#39;There Are No Spies&#39;. The altered title here, The November Man, is a nickname that was given to Pierce that means when he is finished with a job, there is not much left. Pierce plays a retired C.I.A. operative that gets drawn back into the business. Luke plays the young, eager agent that Pierce trained before he retired, which is shown in flashbacks. Bond… I mean Pierce, was the best of the best in his day and now has to go up against his former pupil, Luke. Olga plays someone that everyone wants to get a hold of, for one reason or another; it&#39;s mostly for the information she knows about a high level Russian diplomat that wants to be the next Russian President. Will and Bill are both running the C.I.A. now, with Will at the top and Billhis next in command. Both of them were buddies with Pierce when Pierce was in his prime. The story was good and there were some good fight scenes- Remember, Pierce is in his 60&#39;s now-and of course, car chases. It&#39;s nothigh techthe Bond movies are but it is still a good action movie. The film is rated R so there is a little more nudity and violence than in the Bond pictures, too. It&#39;s rated &quot;R&quot; for violence, language, drug use and sexual situations- including nudity and a rape scene-and has a running time of 1 hour &amp; 48 minutes. I enjoyed it and would buy it on Blu-Ray. A retired CIA agent who gets a sudden visit from his ex-colleague and sets him up for a mission to protect a woman who has got sensitive information that could overthrow the next in line for Russian Presidency. It was an excitement when we see Pierce Brosnan after a gap of 12 long years actinga CIA spy but sadly November Man was not the spy we want to remember Pierce. It gives a feeling Pierce is replicating Daniel Criag of Quantum of Solace in November Man. The charmed spy who took Bond to its best level is lost in this big 12 year gap. As the move goes on you feel there is a struggle between an Old spy and a new spy to score top in a spy chase game. To the worst the new spy looked so dull that you get the feeling and ask yourself that whether he is actinga spy in the movie or he is proving he is a hunk. There is hardly any good delivery of dialogue from this Australian. He tries his best to make you believe he is a smart one but in the whole movie he is being proved wrong. The narrative and plot of the move is just so outdated and mismatched. You get a Chechen war this time and updated version of cold war which turns out to be a yawning and predictable in the rest part of the story. The good part is Brosnan still holds those expressions and acting which we loved him in his Bond movie. It&#39;s sad that he chooses this film for his comeback but piece of advice he should be more careful when he comesa spy because his Bond is still fresh in the audience mind. A nicely-made action-thriller, one with analog car chases and non-digital explosions, like a long tall glass of cold water in a world that mostly offers you Bud Light or Crystal Pepsi.
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