Jack Strong 720p Torrent
Josephine Heathershaw
Playing like a real-life John Le Carre espionage yarn, this handsome Eurothriller tells the dramatic true story of Ryszard Kuklinski, a Polish colonel and anti-Soviet spy who passed thousands of top-secret military documents to NATO between 1972 and 1981. Co-financed by the Polish Film Institute, Jack Strong is a solid addition to the ever-growing canon of films in which former Eastern Bloc nations reflect on their troubled Communist past. With its secret gadgets, poison pills and furtive assignations in snowy graveyards, it is also an enjoyable throwback to the cloak-and-dagger heroics of classic Cold War cinema.
Writer-director Wladyslaw Pasikowski lays out the stakes with a brutal opening scene in which a previous spy meets a grisly death at the hands of the KGB. Jumping forward a few years, we first meet Kuklinski (Marcin Dorocinski) as a much-admired military strategist who has made powerful friends at the Kremlin after helping to crush the Prague Spring uprising of 1968. With handsome, brooding looks reminiscent of the late John Cassavetes, Dorocinski gives an understated performance which constantly hints at inner turmoil and quiet desperation.
Skipping through the 1970s at a brisk clip, Pasikowski keeps tension levels high by bringing envious colleagues, suspicious neighbors and family friction into the mix. When Soviet high command finally realize there is a traitor in the Polish military, an anguished Kuklinski even tries to confess, but his words are misconstrued. These moments of dark comedy bring some welcome light relief, as do the scenes featuring lookalike actors playing former Russian premier Leonid Brezhnev and notorious Polish general Wojciech Jaruzelski, who imposed martial law in 1981.
Eventually, fearing exposure, Kuklinski calls on his CIA handler (Prometheus co-star Patrick Wilson) to help him defect. At this point Pasikowski indulges in a little Argo-style fabrication, sexing up real events with a home invasion, a frantic car chase through snowy Warsaw, and a hair-raising stand-off at the Checkpoint Charlie crossing between East and West Berlin. In fairness, the border showdown is based on a true incident, but the rest is artistic license. The overall narrative framing device, a sinister interrogation taking place some years after the main events, is another smart double bluff designed to keep viewers in suspense.
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