Watched “A Most Wanted Man” yesterday and wow. Really enjoyed that. Is there a movie role PSH couldn’t have knocked out of the ballpark? I could watch the man put up wallpaper and be entertained. Walked out of the movie feeling a profound sense of loss, once again.
Two things that bothered me a little. One, the son would never betray his father like that. I just didn’t buy it. Two, what was the point of that scene with Brue and his wife after he comes home from the office and she hands him a drink? We never see her again. She’s in no way necessary to the story or his character. Why even show the scene at all? And what’s with the rolling of the ice cubes? Was it meant to portray rolling of the dice? Silly, in my opinion.
And so, as after any great Sunday afternoon movie, something to eat. We chose Shake Shack because it recently opened and the reviews were overwhelmingly great. There are reports of line ups outside the door in some locations like NYC.
What a huge and crushing disappointment.
Can’t understand what all the hype is about with this joint. The burgers were just okay. Really nothing to write glowing reviews about. The fries were marginally better but half way through the meal regret began to set in across the board. Gummy bun, over-seasoned beef patties, cheese sauce that is virtually tasteless. The only up side to the experience was that it was somewhat better than SmashBurger (which also opened nearby recently).
Is this the state of new generation burger joints? Because if so, I’m consigning them all to the bin with the other lot of fast food chains.
I’m not sure it’s a betrayal if you look at the larger picture either. It was basically give up his dad on this thing and we go easy, or we or the CIA get him eventually and he gets his fingernails pulled out in a secret prison in Jordan. Even so, the son obviously wasn’t a fan of his father’s terrorist sympathies. I can see that decision being made even if he regrets it later.
This is a fair question and I assume there’s probably a fuller explanation in the book (which I haven’t read). In the universe of the movie, however, I understood it as Issa has zero resources, zero friends, is in Germany illegally, and could be sent back to Russia at any moment. If you give away >€10 million, you’ll suddenly have more friends than you can shake a stick at. If you don’t claim it, you could starve to death in the Hamburg train station.
They just opened the first Shake Shack here in Orlando - in the same plaza as Orlando’s first Trader Joe’s. The plaza didn’t have enough parking for TJ’s (which just opened a couple of months ago) and apparently you have to park miles away now; bear in mind that this is probably the world’s least pedestrian-friendly city.
I guess I’ll file it under “don’t bother” and stick to Five Guys.
To me, a Five Guys is basically the same burger as SmashBurger. Grey, meaty, soggy, minimalist mess.
But Five Guys fries are second to none in the fast food chain world. So I will sometimes make the effort to get a couple of large orders to bring home when I’m grilling my own burgers.
Anybody here ever have an Elevation burger? Because that may be my next burger expedition. Once I get past the disappointment of the most recent one.
Did you miss the part that the guy’s father was a Russian soldier who raped and impregnated his mother? And that the money was presumably illegally obtained? The kid didn’t know his dad and despised him. The question is why did the father leave the money to him at all?
The whole point of the kid and the money was to to do something good with the very tainted money. “Betraying” his father was a long term goal.
The scene with with the wife was just background to show how badly his life was falling apart. It could have been cut. A lot could have been cut. A lot. It is in need of some serious editing down.
Nope…didn’t miss any of that. Are you suggesting that he arrived in Hamburg with the specific plan to find some way to give it to charity… as opposed to giving it to a terrorist organization?
Watched this movie and really enjoyed it…PSH was incredible. Plus a typical Le Carre ending.
With respect to the inheritance, I don’t think Issa arrived with a specific plan, being fresh out of torture prison and all, but he did appear shaken when the lawyer first said to him that it was “tainted money, do you really want it?” They really seemed to be depicting him as the sort of unanchored person who could end up doing anything under a guiding influence, from terrorism to love to charity.