Sitting across a restaurant table from each other, two former lovers and CIA operatives discuss a failed rescue attempt of a hijacked plane years earlier.
The reveal of a suspected mole in the Vienna office eight years after the hijacking has resulted in Henry Pelham (Chris Pine – Star Trek, Wonder Woman) being tasked to find the identity. Celia (Thandiwe Newton – Crash, Solo: A Star Wars Story) is a likely suspect. As the two discuss the present and the past, and as a glorious Californian setting sun is juxtaposed with an icy Viennese winter, lines are blurred between the personal and the professional.
Directed by Janus Metz (Borg vs. McEnroe, TV’s ZeroZeroZero) from the book by Olen Steinhauer, passion, betrayal, truth, All the Old Knives is a wordy but intriguing, slow-burn relationship tale as Pelham looks to understand what happened in Vienna.
Rating: 62%
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