[b]Tinker Tailor Solider Spy[/b], on the other hand, is just confusing. Perhaps the single most confusing movie I've ever watched. I didn't even know enough to know what I didn't know. I didn't even know what questions to ask. I didn't know why the characters were doing what they were doing, what they felt, why any of it was so important. Would it have killed them to explain something? Anything? Obviously a question is who is Witchcraft, and who is Karla? Karla seems important, but I never found out who that was. When important people were killed, I felt nothing. How could I? I didn't know anything about them or how their assassins felt. This is a critically lauded film and I'm going against the grain by admitting I straight don't get the appeal. With nothing to latch onto, I was swept away hoping something would start to make sense, but it never did. As soon as I would think I was catching wind of a coherent plot, the story would swing away to some new development. So I was soon bored. I felt the movie was playing for its own sake, not for mine. Frankly, it's more frustrating than anything and I see it as a waste of a lot of very strong talent. Gary Oldman in one of his first major starring roles, Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Tom Hardy, and more. These are fine, fine actors doing good work in service of a movie that aggressively conceals emotion and motivation. I feel like I'm being too hard on it, but I just really didn't enjoy it at all.