The second movie in David Hare's Johnny Worricker trilogy. Loose-limbed spy Johnny Worricker, last seen whistleblowing at MI5 in Page Eight, has a new life. He is hiding out in Ray-Bans on the Caribbean islands of the title, eating lobster and calling himself Tom Eliot (he’s a poet at heart). We’re drawn into his world and his predicament when Christopher Walken strolls in as a shadowy American who claims to know Johnny. The encounter forces him into the company of some ambiguous American businessmen who claim to be on the islands for a conference on the global financial crisis. When one of them falls in the sea, their financial PR seems to know more than she's letting on. Worricker soon learns the extent of their shady activities and he must act quickly to survive when links to British prime minister Alec Beasley come to light.
Acting
Nighy's bone-dry weariness meets Walken's alien intensity
Cinematography
Turquoise water as ironic counterpoint to bureaucratic dread
Writing
Hare's dialogue: everyone speaks in polished paragraphs
Director
David Hare
Bill Nighy
Johnny Worricker
Christopher Walken
Curtis Pelissier
Winona Ryder
Melanie Fall
Ralph Fiennes
Prime Minister Alec Beasley
Helena Bonham Carter
Margot Tyrell
Rupert Graves
Stirling Rogers
Dylan Baker
Gary Bethwaite
Ewen Bremner
Rollo Madeley
Zach Grenier
Dido Parsons
Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
Colin Maitlis
James Naughton
Frank Church
Meredith Eaton
Clare Clovis
Malik Yoba
Jim Carroll
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
David Hare wrote this specifically for BBC/HBO after the success of Page Eight, cramming his playwright's density into 95 minutes.
The T.S. Eliot pseudonym isn't random — Hare uses it to signal Johnny's spiritual exhaustion and England's post-imperial malaise.
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