Black Bag (2025)

We watched this film on Prime Video last night. From the very beginning, the cloak and dagger feeling is produced by people working in the shadows of the night. It took a while to get to the point of the story which was the marriage at the centre of the intrigue was under attack from two sides. The couple fought back on their own terms. Hence the dinner table as a meeting place for the suspected traitors.

The pace the discovery and the psychology of the spy business, and especially the main character played by Michael Fassbender, remind me of George Smiley in “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”. So, not much has really changed after all these years. However, the technology has greatly improved their ability to listen in on conversations even from a great distance. That alone was worth the price of admission.

If you’re a fan of the spy game, you will enjoy this film. And you won’t be able to guess who the traitor is until nearly the end. Isn’t love grand?