I have to agree with anduril. For me as I've explained elsewhere the icy staging was the perfect motiff, directorial direction to take in this movie and I would hope it would show up in other espionage movies. It brings up the past black and white, cold war scenario of the real nature of the espionage instead of the feel good sort of feelings we get in Mission Impossible or Charlies Angels, and even in the Bourne Identity/Supremacy.

The harshness, the starkness reflects the icy, bitter serious life and death reality of the stakes and the ending was a good one, particularly following a more nebulous ending, a European tone. The coolness, the need for impassioned response, reaction and the dilemma of getting personally involved are all highlightened in this movie. I'm really surprise that some viewers weren't able to appreciate what I considered a superior production.