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Agreed. Odd about Ross.
Are you saying Joe Cole is really...Joe Cool ?
Pretty much every shot is a dutch angle, they're clearly trying something out of the ordinary. It's even mentioned in one of the links AKillToAView shared with us.
The original film is not just about dutch angles but extraordinary compositions as well. Not that this new project has to have those elements.
And some folks just have a more mature look. Still, I have great difficulty processing that Cole is nearly 10 years older than M Caine in his Palmer debut...whaaaaat ?
Are you kidding? They're almost exactly the same age in their respective Ipcresses.
Joe Cole born 1988, so 33/34 during filming.
Hey, at least I didn't mix him up with Joe Cole, former Black Flag roadie, born 1961, murdered 1991, eh!
Although, I'm surprised I didn't mix him up with that Joe Cole, going by that piece of defective googling... :))
Overall I enjoyed that, a bit more than I expected to even. Feels like it could have done with a bit of image grading or a nicer lens to make it look a bit more quality, and the music takes a few dives into being quite bad; but I enjoyed everything else really. All of the performances were good: obviously Tom Hollander is never going to be bad. I like what they've done with Palmer's situation in all this too- making more of the thing that he's working under duress for Dalby and even actively trying to escape. That's actually slightly more interesting than the film, where in retrospect he seems to accept his situation as a spy a bit too readily.
It won't exactly set the world on fire or anything and isn't anything stunning, but a bit of Cold War spy stuff makes a nice change from regional detectives investigating murders on beaches on ITV on Sunday nights. I thought the period was well-staged too.
I hope it is, because I'd like to see some of the unadapted books get a chance.
Bear in mind they seem to have been selling this internationally as well, so if it has sold well a second serial might not even be down to its ratings here.
Could have something to do with the fact that it seems Harry is named after Harry. Actually, I would bet that Harry purchased partial or full rights to the character in perpetuity back in the '60s. Same goes for Matt Helm.
He's a fine actor and shading his performance with Caine undertones but he just looks too damn young and not world weary enough for my tastes.
That's what struck me. He looks like a kid. That'll be nice for him when he's on in years, but for this...Still, I do look forward to watching it. That "flat" Cold War stuff is a great genre. By "flat" I mean plain, no big action scenes, just the real, tense stuff. If you like it, too, I recommend seeing Benedict Cumberbatch, Rachel Brosnahan, Zeljko Ivanek, Elina
Alminas et al. in The Courier (2020). Big recommendation. Also - real life story.
Liking Cole's performance, too - yes, he's young, but his army experience has aged him up, made him cynical and given him knowledge of the world.
Palmer is young and cocky in the original films: he’s not world weary.
He does have plenty of street smarts though, and this version does too. I thought the bit where he goaded the officer into punching him so he could hide something under the carpet when he was knocked down is a perfect bit of Palmer. That’s how he operates: he lets people think they’re getting one over on him.