This story tells about the city of Hamburg, when there was a mysterious man about to approach death. Perhaps that man is trying to restore his being and his profession again. The story tells of a man named Günther Bachmann, a German spy who is trying to figure out the mystery of this mysterious man.
One of the countless sad things about losing Hoffman is the realization that we'll never get to watch him single-handedly elevate an otherwise OK movie again.
In a spy flick, we want to see action. We want to see Jason Bourne jumping off a roof. We want tension, not realism-not smoking and meetings and yakking.
