Spider in the Web

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We gave the movie a good chance but just over half way through we gave up and switched it off . I have never gave up on a movie before but this was just so boring and tedious we had to . We will never get this time back.... Usually we like to give movies a chance to get to the end then review it but this was so slow paced it was incredible . How they got Ben Kingsley to play role in it is beyond us. . Only watch it if you intend on falling asleep through it

Mystery films have to be reasonable and understandable - this isn't. Story leaps from place to place such that the audience is questioning what they might have missed and why the characters are behaving like they are. I suppose the problem lies mainly in the editing. The multitude of languages spoken only adds complication. To complicated a project for this director and editor I presume.

Adereth (Ben Kingsley) was a top notch Mossad Agent, but now Samuel (Itzik Cohen) the Head of Mossad doesn't trust him anymore. Adereth claims he is onto a Dutch company making biochemicals for Syria but Samuel doesn't believe him and requires proof. Therefore Samuel assigns Agent Daniel (Itay Tiran) to keep an eye on Adereth who also sometimes goes by the name of Simon Bo. This is slow, too slow, and we get bogged down for long times into some non-interesting spy-counter spy stuff and a love interest with Adereth and Angela (Monica Bellucci). Finally, when, the picture -proof of the Dutch company making biochemicals for Syria, is shown to Samuel, the pictures show nothing of the kind and the Mossad wants to arrest Adereth. Daniel doesn't let that happen and this is where the movie actually starts - quite a ways into the movie. Before that we were inundated with the Adereth's health and his teaching the younger spy, Daniel, and, of course, the love angles between Adereth and Angela. Adereth knows he is on the right track when dead fish keep showing up in the waters in a Belgian city. By accident Adereth finds the real pictures of the biochemicals being produced and texts them to Daniel. There are 2-twists, one involving the General who Adereth meets in the beginning of the movie, and the next one involves Angela. You have to know this because chances are you may have shut this down after 10-minutes because the pacing is off the charts; that is until Daniel doesn't let the Mossad arrest Adereth. This could have been better told and kept me from La La Land, at times. (5/10) Violence: Yes. Sex: No. Nudity: No. Humor: No. Language: Yes, but mostly in the beginning. Rating: C

Even actor Ben Kingsley cannot salvage this John Le Carré wannabe thriller "Spider in the Web." The main problem is the talky nature of what should be an action picture inspired by true events. The gist of the film is the Mossad operation to locate evidence of a chemical plant used to manufacture horrific weapons of mass destruction to be used in Syria by the Assad regime. But the film is vague on the details of such an operation, and the best it can dredge up is some shaky photographic evidence. Kingsley's character Avram Adereth teams up with a young partner named Daniel, who is the son of one of Adereth's closest friends and career spies. Adereth takes Daniel under his wing, and the two characters play a dangerous double game to locate the so-called Spider in the Web file that will be the "smoking gun" for the evidence of the chemical plants. There is also a love interest in Adereth's passion for Dr. Angela Caroni, who claims to be an environmental activist. Angela becomes involved in the high-risk operation to steal the computer file Spider in the Web. Angela has perhaps the best line in the film when she tells Adereth, "You make love just the way you live life: in despair." The main problem with the film was the overly complicated narrative strands and the static nature of the scenes. There is too much filler dialogue and too many long set speeches with Adereth waxing nostalgic about the past. Most of the action was occurring in the Netherlands, where the secrets about the chemical operation were allegedly located. The film opens with an epigram from Psalms, "Man is like a breath. His days are but a fleeting shadow." But far too much breath was expended in this slow-burner with too many secondary characters and convoluted subplots, the most disgusting of which was the poisoning of fish on the beaches of Antwerp. This was a flat and uninspired film that, in the end, did not shed any significant light on the main topic of chemical weapons and contemporary Syria.

I cannot for the life of me understand how thenidea of this movie even came to mind What a waste of live!

Boredom invades us from the beginning and never lets us down until the end. Ben Kingsley believes in it and shows too much pretension, it's unbearable.

Boring,boring,boring...Nothing else to say...4 stars just because of Ben Kingsley...

I had to force myself to continue watching, thinking it will become better. Went only halfway!

It was really boring that I had to stop from watching it around after 40 minutes.....I tried but the story's pacing was too slow , it was really painful to come to a conclusion... overall, not a good movie...