The Secret Agent
by Christopher Hampton
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Actor: Bob Hoskins, Christian Bale, Gérard Depardieu, Jim Broadbent, Patricia ArquetteDirector: Christopher Hampton
Brand: Fox
Producer: Bob Hoskins
Cinematographer: Denis Lenoir
Writer: Christopher Hampton
Editor: George Akers
Producer: Joyce Herlihy
Producer: Norma Heyman
Writer: Joseph Conrad
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 95 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-06-07
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
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DVD Review: The Boredom Agent.
Summary: 2 Stars
The Secret Agent (Christopher Hampton, 1996)
Ponderous adaptation of the Joseph Conrad novel that never really gets off the ground as the thriller it wants to be. Hampton is a serviceable screenwriter (along these same lines, he was responsible for the script for Phillip Noyce's adaptation of The Quiet American six years later), but his directorial career has been infrequent, with long gaps between projects; this may be an indication of why.
Verloc (Bob Hoskins) is a double agent, working both as a spy for Russia and an informant for the British police force in nineteenth-century London. He's doing well raking in cash from both sides of the dangerous game he's playing until Russia changes its ambassador to England. The new chap wants to see some actual results from Verloc's attempts to undermine the British government, so Verloc hatches a plan that involves his wife Winnie (Patricia Arquette)'s mentally challenged brother Stevie (Christian Bale) and a bomb provided for the operation by a shady anarchist known only as The Professor (Robin Williams in an uncredited role). Murphy's Law strikes, however, and Verloc's life is irreparably shaken up as a result.
Hampton assembled a phenomenal cast for this (aside from those mentioned above, one will find Gerard Depardieu, Jim Broadbent, and Eddie Izzard on display) and then didn't give any of them a great deal to do. While this approach did work well in Wayne Wang's Smoke, The Secret Agent is an entirely different beast altogether; things actually are supposed to go on here, but they rarely do. Of all Conrad's novels, The Secret Agent seems as if it would actually be the easiest to film; no one, however, has yet succeeded in filming an adaptation of it worth watching. You can tune into this one for the cast, but don't expect much. **
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