Stoutor It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Matrixiole Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Edwin The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

shakercoola This is a spy thriller with a minimalist style and a paranoid feel. It has theme about one who places trust in those who don't trust others.The strength in the script is that it places the viewer right in the predicaments about telling the truth, and being trapped with seemingly no way out. For this it should be given credit for the genuine feeling of intrigue. Atmosphere builds very well but it is impossibly to sustain as a crime enters the storyline where the impact is low in atmosphere. From then on there are difficulties with plot holes about the scribe's options. The uneventful daily routine, where our middle-aged, recently long term-unemployed protagonist sits in an empty modern apartment and types up mundane phone conversations on an old fashioned typewriter is a bit far fetched, as is his easy trust of his anonymous employer who presumably he would have vetted after such a strange job interview. But, all in all, it is a slightly above average thriller.

jonathan-harris17 A film with an intriguing first half hour and set-up, a 70s-style spy thriller with mysterious shadow figures, typewriters and cassette recordings, that loses its way as it dives down into an incomprehensible labyrinthine political head-scratcher.The muted, stripped down palette and sets and the very intentional non-digital central setup of an accountant transcribing cassette taps does remind of past films like The Conversation.As it moves on however the initial setup does largely seem like a gimmick to have a base to move off from.The main reason to keep watching for me is the always-engaging Cluzet. Often called upon to play the 'everyman' in his films (e.g. Tell No One), here he plays Duval very downtrodden - unhappy with his working life, attending AA meetings and living a seemingly very solitary, structured life. And yet when he's embroiled into criminality, he's always believable. He struggles, a fish out of water, usually to be beaten back and really gave me my only reason to keep watching: I wanted to see what would happen to Duval.A pity given the main parlour games between shadow operatives seeking for 'the notebooks' had lost my interest well before the 87mins were done but there's also nothing especially off-putting going on either.

Andres-Camara You are watching this movie and you are thinking that it never starts. It lengthens, lengthens and nothing happens. Always the same and nothing new. Later you think, do I have many characters? And I think so. Many of them do not know who they are or what they paint in the film. But it is also that he begins at the end of the film you understand that it is not necessary, he does not tell anything interesting for the film. He is trying to make a character profile, but he does not contribute anything to the story. Above the end is like that could never happen.I can not say that the actors are well, because I see them so inert that for a long time I do not know what they want to tell me. But I think that the director does not know it.The photography and the technical part are very good, it does not look French. It is more American. The problem is that it is just a good container, something that does not say anything.The management, counting that he does not know how much film is left over. That the actors are lost, if not left over. That makes plans that do not say anything although aesthetically they are very publicity. He does not know where he is going.If you do not want to think you've lost a lot of time, do not see it.

GUENOT PHILIPPE This is a combination of Francis Ford Coppola's THE CONVERSATION, starring Gene Hackman, and the Alan Pakula's atmosphere, for instance PARALLAX VIEW, with a sort of Kafka like complicated story, where a simple dude, played by François Cluzet - the French Dustin Hoffman -, a simple office clerk, despaired and alcoholic, loses his job before being hired by a mysterious organization for listening recorded tapes, of conversations...In that purpose, our lead sits all day in an empty office, empty room. But everything will get awry for our lead will also have to deal with the DGSI - the French Intelligence Service, the equivalent of the US Homeland or British MI 5. Very impressive piece of work, but unfortunately spoiled by a wasted ending, a Hollywood like ending. So shame, for this reason I will never see it again.