‘Black Bag’ is a Slam-Bang Thriller from Steven Soderbergh
metroweekly.comPresence with the wily spy thriller Black Bag.Soderbergh and Presence screenwriter David Koepp load up the sex, lies, and video files for this taut tale of a search for the snake hiding within a nest of secret agents.
The top agent, George Woodhouse, portrayed with cool determination by Michael Fassbender, is tasked with rooting out a mole embedded in a black-ops division of British intelligence.
Among his list of suspects is his own wife, Kathryn, played with a sly glint in her eye by a brashly brunette Cate Blanchett.A cultured, high-living London pair, George and Kathryn are part of an attractive group of friends including two other couples — Jimmy (Regé-Jean Page) and Zoe (Naomie Harris), and Freddie (Tom Burke) and Clarissa (Marisa Abela) — all of them agents.
One of this group is the traitor.If interrogation expert George has to subject them all to a polygraph test before serving them another of his scrumptious gourmet dinners, then that is what he’ll do, methodically and dispassionately.
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