"The Cambridge Spies" tells of four Cambridge grads and idealistic communist sympathizers who, in the run up to WWII, arrange their careers such that they have access to Britain's secrets which they may then divert to the Stalin regime. Unfortunately, spying of this sort is a rather dull business, something which is made eminently clear in this clumsy film which seems to have no sense of what it wants to be about. Though we have no back story, no idea of how these men support themselves, no clue how they secure their lofty positions and easy access to intelligence, we do see that women tend to throw themselves at them. Stagey and stiff with time squandered on incessant dialog about ideologies, this film bogs itself down in the mundane trivialities of the four spies lives while the world postures for the mother of all wars. I watched only three episodes becoming so bored as have no desire to sit through the last one. Not worth the time except perhaps for those with an acute interest in the period or the history and fans of the players. (C+)
Review of Cambridge Spies
