a5c7b9f00b MI5 officer Johnny Worricker (Bill Nighy) and Margot Tyrell (Helena Bonham Carter) are on the run together across Europe, going from town to town in Germany. But Worricker knows his only chance of resolving his problems is to return home and confront his nemesis-the prime minister, Alec Beasley (Ralph Fiennes). To do this, he&#39;s going to have to bring to light some unsavory facts about the prime minister&#39;s financial and business arrangements. But Worricker is haunted by the suspicion that he&#39;s not the only person out to undermine the prime minister. Following the events in <a href=">Turks &amp; Caicos (2014) Johnny Worricker and Margot Tyrell are in Europe trying to stay one step ahead of the Security Service. Through his old friend and colleague Rollo, he&#39;s managed to plant a story in The Independent about the source of the Prime Minister&#39;s &quot;bridge&quot; fund, but it gains little traction. Running low on cash, Worricker realizes that they&#39;ll have to go home. He pursues getting the story out by contacting The Independent&#39;s editor Belinda Kay and telling her the whole story. Meanwhile Jill Tankard, the head of MI-5, begins feeding information to Deputy Prime Minister Anthea Catcheside suggesting that the PM may be on his way out. For Worricker, he realizes too late that he too is a pawn in a much larger game. In the final installment of David Hare&#39;s Worricker trilogy, ex-MI5 analyst Johnny Worricker (Bill Nighy) pops up in Germany. He&#39;s still on the run from the British authorities, who are now aided by the German intelligence service in the cat-and-mouse game of tracking him down. The scandal involving the shady dealings of the British Prime Minister (Ralph Fiennes) is threatening to break in the open. A wind of change is palpable and one gets the feeling that events are finally heading to a showdown. It was always difficult to keep up the quality and suspense after the excellent first two films. For one, I found there was just a little too much explaining at the beginning rather than trusting in the intelligence of the viewer. So &#39;Salting&#39; is probably the weakest of the trilogy, but weaker than excellent is still very good. I particularly liked the circular quality of the ending and the fact that,in life, none of the main characters comes outa real winner.<br/><br/>The acting and the production values,in the other episodes, are consistently excellent. The sensitive camera work supports the intricate mood changes and turns in conversations. Paul Englishby&#39;s Jazz tracks are a perfect match for Worricker&#39;s character. In a recent interview with Zap2it, Bill Nighy said that he would love David Hare to write more &#39;Worricker&#39; for him. It&#39;s going to be a tough call to come up with an original storyline and to keep up the quality, but I for one wouldn&#39;t mind if he tried. A remarkable cast was assembled for this: Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham-Carter, Bill Nighy, Olivia Wilde, a who&#39;s who of British acting. There are spies and politics, a prestigious writer, so why did this end up being so dull? It is hard to fault the acting, but the script somehow manages to plod along with barely any tension. It seems more like a talking shop from an Islington dinner party than an action packed spy thriller. I enjoyed Fiennes&#39; suspiciously Blair-like prime minister, and indeed the performances all round are fine, with Mr Nighy portraying a silken if disgruntled ex-spook. Yet the action, suchit is,, trundles along at a funereal pace. <br/><br/>Perhaps Mr Hare&#39;s undoubted talents are better suited to the stage than to the moving picture. I can&#39;t see this leading him to being asked to write.a Jason Bourne screenplay any time soon.
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