Critique of 'Amateur': lethal cryptographer

Amateur is preceded by Robert Littell's homonymous novel and an almost unknown film adaptation by Charles Jarrott. So when James Hawes (British director endorsed by his doing in the Black Mirror series) took over the reins of this thriller, there was no doubt about the interest of his story. And that interest, that is the percentage of expected profit in a high-production film, endorsed the concretion of a strange-behavior film. As rare there is…

Rami Malek was inspired by Heath Ledger's Joker in The Dark Knight when filming the explosion scenes in Amateur.