Spider in the Web

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We gave the movie a good chance but just over half way through we gave up and switched it off . I have never gave up on a movie before but this was just so boring and tedious we had to . We will never get this time back.... Usually we like to give movies a chance to get to the end then review it but this was so slow paced it was incredible . How they got Ben Kingsley to play role in it is beyond us. . Only watch it if you intend on falling asleep through it

Mystery films have to be reasonable and understandable - this isn't. Story leaps from place to place such that the audience is questioning what they might have missed and why the characters are behaving like they are. I suppose the problem lies mainly in the editing. The multitude of languages spoken only adds complication. To complicated a project for this director and editor I presume.

Adereth (Ben Kingsley) was a top notch Mossad Agent, but now Samuel (Itzik Cohen) the Head of Mossad doesn't trust him anymore. Adereth claims he is onto a Dutch company making biochemicals for Syria but Samuel doesn't believe him and requires proof. Therefore Samuel assigns Agent Daniel (Itay Tiran) to keep an eye on Adereth who also sometimes goes by the name of Simon Bo. This is slow, too slow, and we get bogged down for long times into some non-interesting spy-counter spy stuff and a love interest with Adereth and Angela (Monica Bellucci). Finally, when, the picture -proof of the Dutch company making biochemicals for Syria, is shown to Samuel, the pictures show nothing of the kind and the Mossad wants to arrest Adereth. Daniel doesn't let that happen and this is where the movie actually starts - quite a ways into the movie. Before that we were inundated with the Adereth's health and his teaching the younger spy, Daniel, and, of course, the love angles between Adereth and Angela. Adereth knows he is on the right track when dead fish keep showing up in the waters in a Belgian city. By accident Adereth finds the real pictures of the biochemicals being produced and texts them to Daniel. There are 2-twists, one involving the General who Adereth meets in the beginning of the movie, and the next one involves Angela. You have to know this because chances are you may have shut this down after 10-minutes because the pacing is off the charts; that is until Daniel doesn't let the Mossad arrest Adereth. This could have been better told and kept me from La La Land, at times. (5/10) Violence: Yes. Sex: No. Nudity: No. Humor: No. Language: Yes, but mostly in the beginning. Rating: C