The Tailor of Panama *** (2001, Pierce Brosnan, Geoffrey Rush, Jamie Lee Curtis) – Classic Movie Review 1439

Co-writer/director John Boorman’s 2001 thriller The Tailor of Panama stars Pierce Brosnan as Andy Osnard, a British spy in Panama who employs the services of a well-connected Cockney tailor (Geoffrey Rush) to relay sensitive information as he attempts to discover the future of the Panama Canal.

Brosnan is excellent in a caddish, seedy role a million miles away from his James Bond character. But this is an only moderate version of a John Le Carré thriller, with too much feeble talk and not enough exciting action. Director Boorman tries hard and there is interesting acting and there are intriguing situations, but all the quality assembled for the film is not quite there up on screen.

Jamie Lee Curtis co-stars, and also in the cast are Leonor Varela (as Marta), Brendan Gleeson (as Mickie Abraxas), Harold Pinter (as Uncle Benny), Catherine McCormack, Lola Boorman, David Hayman, Mark Margolis, Martin Ferrero, John Fortune, Martin Savage, Edgardo Molino, Jonathan Hyde and Dylan Baker.

A couple of years after appearing as the young David Copperfield in a TV movie, the 12-year-old Daniel Radcliffe landed his first cinema role as Mark Pendel, the son of Harry and Louisa Pendel (Rush and Curtis). Curtis pointed out to Daniel’s mother that he could be Harry Potter himself he looked so like him. His next film was Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, also 2001.

Brosnan went on to star as James Bond again in Die Another Day in 2002.

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