![]() His handlers are three suspicious characters, one of whom must be a mole. Pullman looks a lot like Dennis Hopper and does a good job as the brilliant, unstable genius. A chess championship is taking place during the Cuban missiles crises and a drunkard American professor (Bill Pullman) must act as the go-between spy, besides being the chess champion defying Russia. In this movie, the story takes place mostly in Warsaw, which makes a nice change of place from the usual Berlin. After all, this is the Cold War and we've pretty much seen everything about that period in time and movie rules (and history) dictate that the Russians are the villains and nobody is to be trusted. At least, it has a script that actually makes some sense, albeit in a formulaic way. ![]() ![]() Reviewed by dierregi 7 / 10 A decent script with a decent twistĪs far as Netflix-produced movies go, this is one of the best I saw.
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