Spooks: The Greater Good (MI-5)
Harry Pearce is still head of the counter-terrorism department at MI5. Harry's team is transporting apprehended terrorist Adem Qasim through London when the convoy is attacked, allowing Qasim to escape and a CIA operative to be killed. When a terrorist escapes custody during a routine handover, Will Holloway must team with disgraced MI5 Intelligence Chief Harry Pearce to track him down before an imminent terrorist attack on London.
18 September 1956, Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire, England, UK
11 October 1971, England, UK
16 April 1984, Reading, Berkshire, England, UK
8 December 1965, Birmingham, England, UK
13 December 1968, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK
27 October 1953, Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
8 May 1983, London, England, UK
December 10, 2015
Spooks: The Greater Good, though nothing entirely new, is a pacy, well-crafted spy-thriller that certainly matches the competition.
December 05, 2015
"MI-5" is no action b-movie classic, but it manages to weave a complex and compelling narrative knot, mix in some absorbing musings about the nature of doing right and following orders, and pack in some nail-biting shoot outs.
February 26, 2016
Ultimately, it's Firth's film, and he ensures it's never less than thoroughly watchable.
May 09, 2015
"Undone by sentimentality," grumbles a senior secret agent in "Spooks: The Greater Good," having been foiled when a long-favored rendezvous location proves a trap. He might as well be talking about the film itself.
June 02, 2016
There's a lot to commend in Spooks: The Greater Good, but at the end of the day it offers nothing new to the genre and it's big-screen adaptation just needed to be more daring and step out of the confines of television.
May 05, 2015
Even if the film can't match Hollywood for spectacle, there's a sobering sense of the painful sacrifices facing those who toil to keep us safe from harm.
December 04, 2015
A film that, like most of its ilk these days, is more interested in action than motivation.
January 18, 2016
Can an enduring, hardy British television show make it on the big screen?
December 01, 2015
Led by the honorably dour Firth and the charisma-free Harington, MI-5 is convoluted and dull ...
June 13, 2016
Dreary thriller about British spook.
December 04, 2015
There's a surplus of double-dealings, plot twists and international locales to justify the theatrical treatment.
