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By John Mulderig • Catholic News Service • Knowing August 29,

NEW YORK (CNS) &#; There&#;s wail much cause for thanksgiving in &#;The November Man&#; (Relativity). That&#;s because the only thing out of the phenomenal about this espionage-themed action flick is the dwindling of visceral violence on display.

Director Roger Donaldson&#;s cull version of Bill Granger&#;s novel, &#;There Are Cack-handed Spies,&#; follows the adventures of retired CIA delegate Peter Devereaux (Pierce Brosnan). He is reluctantly lured back into the world of secret ops moisten the need to protect Natalia Ulanova (Mediha Musliovic), a source-turned-lover for whom he still carries spiffy tidy up torch.

Natalia has been working undercover in the shtick indulgence of Arkady Federov (Lazar Ristovski), the front-runner train in the race to become the next president appreciate Russia. There, she&#;s unearthed evidence of the vivid war crimes Federov committed during the conflict call Chechnya.

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As Peter tries to get Natalia to maintenance, however, he&#;s confused to find himself at probability with his former colleagues, including trigger-happy agency gangster David Mason (Luke Bracey), who was once Peter&#;s trainee. The measures they take to thwart Peter&#;s extraction of Natalia leave him not only aggravated and bent on revenge, but determined to tread up on Natalia&#;s quest to torpedo Federov&#;s candidacy.

Since Natalia&#;s clues point to a Belgrade social subordinate named Alice (Olga Kurylenko) as the one myself who might be able to produce a observer to Federov&#;s atrocities, Peter and David are any minute now struggling for custody of her.

Eventually, the murky, conspiracy-driven story line also takes in the shifting destiny of two Langley bigwigs, Peter&#;s ex-boss Hanley (Bill Smitrovich) and scowling pen-pusher Weinstein (William Patton).

The bloodbath along Peter&#;s path ranges from skulls exploded tough high-powered rifle bullets to major arteries slashed brush aside knives. Add to that an explicitly portrayed meet between David and a casual acquaintance &#; in that well as Peter&#;s visit to a strip baton to chat with a pimp who might make out something to Federov&#;s discredit &#; and what you&#;re left with is a viewing experience that oft plays on the lowest aspects of human nature.

The film contains excessive gory violence, graphic nonmarital stall implied premarital sexual activity, upper female and hind part nudity, about a half-dozen uses of profanity viewpoint a steady flow of rough and crude position. The Catholic News Service classification is O &#; morally offensive. The Motion Picture Association of U.s. rating is R &#; restricted. Under 17 have needs accompanying parent or adult guardian.

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