Official Secrets

Sometimes it's not about the evidence you present, but proving it to be true in a government made of compromising secrets! After receiving a memo concerning the United States and the U.N. Security Council, she attempts to reveal it only to get entangled in a massive cover-up and a trial! Showing the consequences of doing the right thing by defying your government, this thriller based on the true events manages to leave its impression!

This line is worth watching this film for the like about Sunni and Shea 😂 Great cast and fascinating story.

All my credits go to the same background of a British motion picture...due being educated in the era of a British colony for about six decades...basing on actual case of The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War by Marcia & Thomas Mitchell...with whistleblower Katharine Gun...and the castings are strong...Matt Smith and Keira Knightley as Katharine Gun...the last but not least...Ralph Fiennes...

A Thriller Classic. This is really strong and consistent the entire way through. The acting is really good throughout with a really strong cast overall. Rhys Ifans is the best thing in this and I wish he had more screen time. He is amazing. The husband was just ok and I wish he had more chemistry with Kiera. Otherwise everyone else was really strong and had great chemistry and did a good job never getting bogged down in too much of it. The music was very good and very well used although I wish it had a bit more of its own identity. It sounds like every thriller soundtrack of recent times but its still good. The cinematography is very strong with the only complaint is that sometimes the shots can be a bit too basic while other times it every well framed and detailed. I get its supposed to be intimate scenes though. Really the main thing that holds this back is this is event driven as much as character driven event wise. This weaves very well between the two but it feels like it can't really build momentum because of that but remains consistent the whole way. It does have a lot of great underlying commentary about government hypocrisy and the morals of government secrets. If its consistency sounds like a complaint it isn't rather just a natural shortcoming. A bit more identity and more tension ramp up is what's missing. Regardless anyone who is a fan of any actors in this, the director, or thrillers will like this a lot.

A solid enough whistleblower movie but falls short in the suspense department like similar movies such as "All the President's Men".

This movie, on second viewing, was perfect: Superb attention to detail. Unsentimental exposition of a horrific situation. Acting and directing spot on. I followed the events underlying this story 20 years ago, with great concern. I didn't know this specific, inspiring story of a civil servant who stared down the threat of imprisonment based on unjust, Thatcher-era secrecy laws to do her job for the British people. Must see a second time to make sure you heard everything right. I found no mistakes.

An important and moving story. Unfortunately, Kyra Knightley is miscast. I don't believe her in this role, and that makes a film that could have been amazing, flat.

Official Secrets, however well made and performed, is a film basically made some 10 years too late, as the actual events sadly has lost much of its force of historical actuality in 2019. Nevertheless, it is a thorow reminder of what happned, and its fundamental topics of political power and decieve contra media and puplic awareness is a perpetual subject. Political authority should never be allowed to escape scrutiny, also meaning - don't think for a second that similar events can't happen again.

I thought Keira gave a cracking performance as the whistleblower Katharine Gun. The story is interesting as it is, of course, based on a true story about a time I remember reasonably well. Its a fairly insightful film and its certainly thought provoking. I'd recommend it, yes.

A well edited, well-paced and marvelously executed film about A British code breaker making a startling discovery how The British and the Americans were trying to put pressure on the UN by allegedly lying themselves into an illegal war to jump start the Iraq invasion. This is Gavin Hood's best directed film. It is one of the best performances that Keira Knightly has produced. It has a stacked supporting cast as well. This is a great spy thriller based on true events in 2003.