The Ipcress File (2022) Reviews & Ratings

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The Ipcress File reviews

The Ipcress File holds a 7.1/10 average from 75 TMDB ratings.

It took two tries several weeks apart for me to get through episode one, and now I see that I had to allow Harry Palmer to grow on me, which he did. I am not a fan of spy programming, because they seem so similar with their themes of conspiracy in the halls of power and heroes not knowing who they can trust as they try to save the world, or at least a corner of it. But once I connected to Mr. Palmer, I had no troubl…
— Peter McGinn (10/10)

As the Cold War rages, ex-smuggler turned reluctant spy Harry Palmer finds himself at the centre of a dangerous undercover mission, on which he must use his links to find a missing British nuclear scientist.

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