The Courier: Neon NZ Film Review
The Courier: Neon NZ Film Review It's clear what The Courier is trying to do. That's deliver a slice of a true-life spy story you'd never heard of before. It's the take of unassuming businessman Greville Wynne (Cumberbatch, in clipped English and dressed up tones), who, through a friendship with someone he believes to be a business colleague but is in fact a spy, gets co-opted into heading to Russia in the 1960s. Befuddled as to why he's chosen, he protests he'll be caught. But as he's told repeatedly "You really are the last man we'd send." His mission - to deliver messages to and from Oleg Penkovsky (Ninidze, easily the film's true star) at the height of nuclear tensions between the east and the west. However, Penkovsky could be the key to ending the Cuban Missile Crisis - as the net begins to tighten around both the Russian and the seemingly clueless Brit. The Courier is solid, but unspectacular fare, that does what you'd expect and ...