What lengths would you go to in order to save your family?Would you deliver a memory stick to the MI6 if a stranger asked you to?Our Kind of Traitor poses these and more questions in the adaptation of a John LeCarre novel. Ewan McGregor, Stellan Skarsgard, and Damian Lewis are the three major leads.The movie was enjoyable if a little unbelievable at times.

Sometimes you get into a situation without really doing anything. And then you have to ask yourself where to go from there. Something like this happens to Ewan McGregors character. Someone with a past, but also someone with morals. And someone who seems to be struggling with his life, so he may be welcoming whatever gets thrown at him.This is based on a novel which I haven't read, so I can't compare those two. I can tell you that the movie is more than suspenseful enough and it seems very much rooted in reality (of course heightened at certain points of the story). There are many obstacles and you may see a lot of things coming before they happen, but the movie is played very well and is more than decent enough to enjoy

'Our Kind of Traitor' should really have been my sort of movie. The acting talent utilised really is pretty impressive – Ewan McGregor, Damian Lewis and Naomi Harris all well used to turning in great performances that can lift a film. I first became aware of this film as a 'new release' on Amazon and did wonder why I'd never heard of it before. I'm guessing it was either released straight to DVD, or had such a limited cinema release that no one really heard much about it. And for a good reason, it's pretty boring.Despite the acting talent on offer, it never really gets going. A married couple (McGregor and Harris) are on a 'second honeymoon' kind of holiday where they're trying to rekindle their marriage after he had an affair with a younger woman. Once on their travels he stays out late and gets talking (and drinking) with a particularly dodgy-looking crowd of guys (who have the word 'criminal' stamped across their foreheads, in my opinion) and end up somehow being 'witnesses' for their good character during an upcoming deal for political asylum with MI6. No, seriously.Apart from how generally ludicrous this sounds, I had two problems with the story – firstly I felt there wasn't much motivation for Ewan McGregor's character to actually hook up with these dodgy guys – an action that clearly went against his attempts to patch things up with his wife. And, secondly, the main 'villain' (I'll leave it up to you to decide if they're villains or not) keeps referring to McGregor as 'Professor.' Yes, Ewan plays a university lecturer and admits this early on. It's just the guy uses it almost as a put-down, making 'the professor's' compliance in his business even less likely.Okay, so it's a little far-fetched, but Star Wars never won any points for its 'realism.' I can suspend my disbelief if what I'm seeing is vaguely interesting. And this isn't. It's not bad, it just should be more due to its actors, yet it comes across as a 'made-for-TV' movie that takes way too long to get going. It's not all bad – Damien Lewis seems to be revelling in playing a slightly smarmy MI6 agent. If you're a fan of his then you'll get a little more out of this film, otherwise… there's better on offer.

It's sad that the UK always seems to revert to dealing in dubious economics whenever its more traditional industries flounder. Elizabeth I sent out so-called privateers who were really just pirates and now the UK is hosting dirty money from all over the planet. This story has had little play in the movies probably because no one wants to stop the money train. But this movie is a refreshing attempt to rectify all that and that in itself is worth the price of admission.Just as cinema, Stellan Skarsgard, Damian Lewis and Ewan McGregor give memorable performances that treat the subject matter with the seriousness it deserves. Damian Lewis is particularly effective as the spymaster who is trying to expose corruption at the highest levels. One scene near the end where the bespectacled spymaster is home cooking made me immediately envy his gorgeous London pad, and the location shots are just something extra that you'll likely enjoy.There's plenty of action in this thriller but the best thing about it is the choice of an unusual villain the financial district in London called The City. True, the script could have used a little tuning up but it is all clear enough by the credits.