When Oscar bait falls, it falls hard. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is absolutely incoherent and joyless. There's not a spark of humor or wit. It rushes through an abundance of nonsensical plot without ever stringing threads together. The script is about as awful as adaptation gets. These writers think that overcomplicated structure can make up for bad plotting and makes your film "smart." Yikes.
Gary Oldman's Oscar buzz is absolutely hilarious. He doesn't do a single thing in the entire film, maybe saying a total of one hundred words in the film's runtime. If he got a Best Actor nomination, it would be among the most hilarious on record. His face hardly moves and he's aged terribly. There's nothing to fuss over.
Colin Firth is tolerable in a supporting role, but the film is so choppily edited that none of the performers can come off well. While I sincerely doubt Alfredson's ability to direct after seeing his mediocre Let the Right One In, amateurish editing and fundamentally awful scripting surely put this on the wrong track from the start.
Focus Features better gear up to spend millions of dollars on this Oscar campaign if they want to see so much as a nomination for Costume Design or Art Direction. Even that is a major stretch for the nothingness this deserves.
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