It would be hard to argue that The Operative is not a very flawed movie. The biggest issue among all of those is it loses focus that easily shifts from Diane Kruger as the main character, a woman who slowly becomes a more and more important Mossad agent, and everyone else, who are basically not relevant. The same is true for the time frame in which the movie takes place and here it is hard to gauge what is when, but not in a good, mysterious way.
However, The Operative is also a very good movie. It offers a textured experience that is loaded with different levels of interpretation, looking from a geopolitical standpoint. At moments, it is also lightning-fast in its violence as well. Lastly, its director, Yuval Adler, does a wonderful job with the movie's ending, offering one of the main reasons for the film's relatively low score on most audience-based aggregators. For a spy drama set in the modern world, this film is what we need - a complex and hard-to-understand tale that is potentially unclear even to those who told it.
However, The Operative is also a very good movie. It offers a textured experience that is loaded with different levels of interpretation, looking from a geopolitical standpoint. At moments, it is also lightning-fast in its violence as well. Lastly, its director, Yuval Adler, does a wonderful job with the movie's ending, offering one of the main reasons for the film's relatively low score on most audience-based aggregators. For a spy drama set in the modern world, this film is what we need - a complex and hard-to-understand tale that is potentially unclear even to those who told it.
