One ballsy man’s spectacular real-life scam that endured in the UK for nearly a decade makes for pulse-quickening escapism in Rogue Agent.
This is a story so far-fetched that you’d have trouble buying it in a film unless it really happened, and such is the case here in a yarn that intrigues from the very beginning and only momentarily towards the end loses a bit of its footing.
Graced by strong and alluring performances by leads James Norton and Gemma Arterton, this most engrossing drama is an IFC Films release in the U.S., where it will also be available for streaming on AMC+, while Netflix will broadcast it on home turf.Great Britain has probably turned out more first-rate spy stories, both in literature and onscreen, than any other nation, but this one has a special flavor that sets it apart.
It’s both intelligent and sexy, a combination sufficiently rare as to always to be welcome, and the audacity of the central figure, Robert Hendry Freegard, both in work and play is as immediately captivating as it is appalling; the man made major mischief.Taking advantage of a spy shortage (who knew?) that afflicted England for about a decade beginning in the early 1990s and triggered the unprecedented use of “freelance” undercover investigators, the well-spoken young Freegard used his considerable charm and persuasiveness to successfully pose as a member of the MI5 domestic security apparatus.
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