Hawes’s last film, One Life, built its narrative tension primarily around the click-clacking of bureaucracy at work, and The Amateur finds similar success in dramatizing the various levers of modern technological warfare.
Director James Hawes previously helmed 2023’s poignant One Life, and seeing him further embrace espionage and action, building on his work as a director on Apple TV’s Slow Horses, is more than welcome.
The Amateur is directed by James Hawes, who previously made the Nicholas Winton drama One Life…
Directed by James Hawes (One Life), based on a script by Ken Nolan and Gary Spinelli, Malek plays an underdog type of hero who relies on his math and technical skills in his vigilantism.
…director James Hawes (One Life)…
British director James Hawes (One Life)…