Is that really the prevailing opinion around here? What are we talking about, hipster contrarianism or something? Given that the general opinion of IV elsewhere is that it's the second or third-best Star Trek movie overall.

Is that really the prevailing opinion around here? What are we talking about, hipster contrarianism or something? Given that the general opinion of IV elsewhere is that it's the second or third-best Star Trek movie overall.

For what it's worth, IIRC Clive James was a fan of the earlier, more tightly plotted novels (e.g. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold), but felt that le Carré had started to believe in his own publicity by the time of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - with the result being that the novel was bloated and overlong, and the TV…