... but rapidly subsides into an incoherent vanity project for Robert Downey, Jr.
Downey is usually terrific and it's hard to grasp why he signed on to this slice of bland mediocrity. One guesses he either owed someone a favor or is in dire financial straits. The dialog and direction are like something out of a high school theater production.
I don't know nor do I especially care about the source material. The general concept of a North Vietnamese double agent floating between Vietnam and the US is fertile enough ground for this series to have been much better.
It doesn't appear that the producers were really trying all that hard.
Downey is usually terrific and it's hard to grasp why he signed on to this slice of bland mediocrity. One guesses he either owed someone a favor or is in dire financial straits. The dialog and direction are like something out of a high school theater production.
I don't know nor do I especially care about the source material. The general concept of a North Vietnamese double agent floating between Vietnam and the US is fertile enough ground for this series to have been much better.
It doesn't appear that the producers were really trying all that hard.