The Spy Who Came In From the Cold (1965)

IMDb plot summary: British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.
Directed by Martin Ritt. Starring Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Oskar Werner, and Sam Wanamaker.

John le Carre is widely praised as a writer, but movie adaptations of his work are almost always a miss for me. They're so dense and slow and tedious that any excitement or intrigue that may be found in them gets lost for me. That is definitely the case here. I just don't care about any of this, not even with an actor like Richard Burton in the lead, who I usually find very compelling. But this is just such a bureaucratic spy story, it feels like filing paperwork just to watch it.

1 star.

How it entered my Flickchart:
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold < The Switch
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold < Mother (2009)
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold > Capote
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold < Braveheart
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold > Playtime
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold < The Number 23
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold > Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold < Inkheart
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold < The Overnight
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold > Gideon, Tuba Warrior
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold > Homicide
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold < Atlantis: The Lost Empire

Final spot: #2400 out of 2876.