‘A Most Wanted Man’ is a must-see thriller

Though movie snobs will argue that the late and great Philip Seymour Hoffman will appear in the supporting cast of the next Hunger Games (BIG DEAL…), but Hoffman, who overdosed on what they are calling, “combined drug intoxication” aka a kind way of saying Overdose, on Feb. 2 – played his last major lead role in A Most Wanted Man that hit theaters late in the summer.

It was actually a bit distracting to say the lease (in a great way), knowing that the former Academy Award winner for Best Actor in the 2005 masterpiece Capote was gone from this earth.

I tried to pinch myself a time or two throughout the movie – knowing that one of the greatest actors of our generation was now lost to this world that we all take for granted from time to time. Guilty as charged!

Never have I seen, well at least not in a while – a man (Seymour Hoffman), who plays Gunther Bachmann, a German intelligence operative, who quite literally smokes a cigarette and or has a nice cocktail or two – mainly straight whiskey whenever he gets the chance.

Since 9/11, Gunther has been heading a tiny group that tracks the Muslim’s population’s every move in the shit-hole that is Hamburg, where the attack on America happened based on the epic spy thriller, based on John le Carre’s 2008 novel – with the same title. Fittingly, this shit-hole of a town seems to capture Gunther’s bland, yet kickass character.

There is a certain aura that surrounds the fare skinned, overweight redhead, who knocked the German accident out of the park. This movie cries for Seymour Hoffman’s attention. Again, it’s quite distracting, but in the theater world – he lives to see another day!

The film stars others such as Rachel McAdams (Annabel Richter), Willem Dofoe (Tommy Brue), Robin Wright (Martha Sullivan), Daniel Bruhl (Max), Nina Hoss (Erna Frey) and Grigoriy Dobygin (Issa Karpov).

This was a wild chase of a thriller, with one off the wall moment after another.

If you like, liked and or plan on liking Seymour Hoffman. This is a great flick to see sometime sooner than later.

Enjoy the trill. I tried not giving you (the reader) too much info.