There's a moment where Gunther (Philip Seymour Hoffman) reveals his true intentions in his hunt that rang false for me - in general, I had trouble keeping track of the central character's motivations. That might be a little bit of a feature of the spy thriller, and I did appreciate how A Most Wanted Man makes a feature of some of the mundane work of intelligence.
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