Director Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter David Koepp keep the ball rolling on their low-fi genre hybrid larks with Black Bag, a loquacious espionage thriller, featuring a sparkly ensemble cast in a narrative which appears to mash together Edward Albee and John Le Carré.

While the reality of subconscious motivation will forever muddy the outwardly pure surface of altruistic actions, director James Hawes aims to showcase the potential authenticity of the social conscience in One Life, a reenactment of Sir Nicholas Winton’s actions on the eve of World War II.

Shallow and unfortunately quite boring, Rowe’s major crime with his first film in twenty odd years is wasting the opportunity of really utilizing the murky human elements of his characters.