I've seen this movie before. To be more accurate, I've seen lots of spy stories, and The November Man is nothing original, but the pacing and the plot twists make for a dandy couple hours of thrills and spills.The viewer, so often the victim of clichéd crap in the theater or on TV, can rest assured that Roger Donaldson, who has made everything from The Bounty to the awful remake of Peckinpah's The Getaway, from gory science fiction (Species) to historical fiction (Thirteen Days), will deliver a journeyman effort.Even if there are no major push-backs against the Hollywood cliché machine.There is a moment in the movie that Pierce Brosnan's character warns his protégé that he can either be "a human or a taker of human life," he can't be both. This is the sort of extra sprinkle of intelligence that makes The November Man a cut above. And the cut that happens right after that comment is enough to make the viewer gasp with horror.I watched The November Man last night, and I found myself not wanting to do chores (easy ones at that) because I wanted to immerse myself in the story.For the life of me, I can't think of a better recommendation than that. The next time USA Network shows it, sit down, put the dishes and the laundry off for awhile, and enjoy a good, solid spy story.And don't pay for it! I didn't see TNM uncut, but I don't think I missed anything critical from the edited-for-television version.

It met slightly my expectations.The pace was good and there was enough suspense to keep my attention high. The story was not complicated and the performance of ex-James Bond Pierce Brosnan was fresh and respectable.The filming locations with Lausanne, Montenegro or Moscow gave this spy thriller a serious touch. In other words, if you have nothing special to do one evening this one is the perfect entertaining action movie. But it's not worth to see it again or hold it for example in my best of DVD collection.See therefore the trilogy of Taken or the Bourne series.Solid 6/10.

I thought this was a great movie. Excellent acting, excellent plot. I thought this was perhaps Pierce's best acting ever. He was very focused on his character and it was very believable acting on his part. And Olga is always a very believable rock solid actress. The plot was very interesting and had a great supporting cast. I also thought it was interesting to see the different locations the story took the viewer to as well. The dude that played the 2nd lead did a great job as well and I liked how they presented his character with all of the complications that his profession came with, and how that job would affect your conscience and the inner conflict of what kind of a person you think you are, what you were, where you are going, and what can you do to affect where you will end up as a person. I thought it was a great movie in every way and a rock solid 10.

I decided to watch this movie not knowing it was based on a novel, haven't read the novel either so don't know if it did justice to the film or not.Coming to the film,was expecting a good movie since it casts Pierce Brosnan as a an American spy.The beginning of the movie seemed interesting, have always liked Pierce Brosnan in the role of a spy. Devereaux (Pirce Brosnan) was a character i couldn't understand, sometimes he acts just like he should, an intelligent spy with amazing skills, can handle tough situation easily, and then sometimes he acts just the opposite making naive mistakes. The story was confusing with lots of loopholes. So in the movie, CIA roams freely in Russia and there are no police. It felt like it was an American territory where Russian police or intelligence had no hold. You can enter a hotel and easily get to the upcoming president of Russia, CIA can do whatever it wants and the world would believe a Chechnyan girl who was physically abused by the antagonist via a email and lastly the Americans would want this girl who had proof even its agents had a hand in starting a war.My score - at best 5.5 The soundtrack was nothing spectacular.