Synopsis
A young Western woman is recruited by the Mossad to go undercover in Tehran where she becomes entangled in a complex triangle with her handler and her subject.
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Cast
- Diane KrugerRachel
- Martin FreemanThomas
- Cas AnvarFarhad
- Werner DaehnRöska
- Liron LevoDan
- Hadi KhanjanpourOwner E-Store
- Maria GnecchiItalian Woman
- Julia SchneiderGerman Woman
- Daniel WandeltSchool's Principal
- Lana EttingerOperative #2
Recommendations
- 63
Movie Nation
For a genre picture, this one is better than average, letting us see what two fine actors saw in the script and not leaving them or us disappointed in the result. - 60
Screen Daily
Diane Kruger is compelling in the central role in this pacy procedural thriller which is persuasive in its depiction of contemporary spycraft but less convincing in mounting a case for why she would work for Mossad in the first place. - 60
Variety
A proficient but unsurprising espionage thriller from Israeli writer-director Yuval Adler that offers another well-fitted showcase for Diane Kruger’s stern resolve as a performer. - 60
The New York Times
The Operative, directed by Yuval Adler, doesn’t offer much distinctive, but it does deliver a few suspenseful sequences, some interesting nuts-and-bolts details of espionage work and a good lead performance en route to an unsatisfying ending. - 58
The Film Stage
Director Adler has made a very talky film, full of interior scenes and far flung from the hard-edged spy thrillers of Bond or Bourne. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
Writer-director Yuval Adler connects the dots of the convoluted plot with reasonable clarity, but The Operative only intermittently builds suspense. - 50
Los Angeles Times
The movie hits all the right plot points but never connects them to a story with any kind of momentum or tension. - 50
RogerEbert.com
Diane Kruger is as inscrutable to us as she is to her fellow Mossad agents and the asset she seduces in The Operative, a solidly crafted if forgettable espionage thriller.
