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FILM REVIEW

Film review: Scribe

Ed Potton
The Times
François Cluzet fails to carry this desperately half-baked plot about a hostage crisis, an election and the secret service
François Cluzet fails to carry this desperately half-baked plot about a hostage crisis, an election and the secret service
Ed Potton
The Times

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★★☆☆☆
In this feeble French John le Carré knock-off, François Cluzet (Untouchable) plays an admin drone in a downward spiral of unemployment and alcoholism who is employed to transcribe surveillance tapes for a suspicious espionage figure and gets in way over his head. There’s a satisfying mood of shadowy enervation throughout, but the plot, involving a political election, a hostage crisis and the secret service, is desperately half-baked, leaving Cluzet to carry the film on his own with his baffled, hangdog schtick. Which, sadly, he can’t.
15, 91min