Eva Green and Vincent Cassel are the strongest assets of this high-tech spy mini-series filmed in an English-French production, the action of which begins in Syria and continues in London, which is threatened by cyberterrorist attacks. And from France. After two Syrian hackers steal valuable data from the Syrian government, French mercenary Gabriel (Cassel) will help them escape, but it soon turns out that the hackers have stolen much more than they planned. The British and French secret services equally want this information, all the more so because the action takes place in post-Brexit Europe and those two countries obviously do not have the warmest relations.
There are also conflicting relations in the intelligence top of the French government because while one adviser (Irene Jacob) advises the president that it would be best to go the standard and legal way, another adviser (Stanislas Merhar) suggests that it would be better to go the mercenary way so that they can hide the connection of official France. During this time, cyber-terrorist attacks have already started in London, and Security Minister Richard Banks (Peter Mullan) and his adviser Alison (Green) will try to track down these terrorists. We will soon realize that the adviser of the English minister and the French mercenary are bound by a common past, and although in the beginning “Liaison” offered an interesting premise and seemed extremely interesting and quite current, very quickly it turned into quite a chaos.
The very idea of the series that the entire security network of a certain country, this time Great Britain, can be very sensitive to such cyber-attacks is extremely interesting. Equally interesting are the relations between the countries, that is, Britain and the rest of Europe after Brexit, and a lot of things are still clearly unexplained in reality when it comes to cooperation, including in such delicate issues as intelligence and security systems. What would happen with the privatization of the maintenance of these security systems, which is actually, we will understand, one of the main goals of the organization behind everything.
All of the above sounds very interesting in theory (the British series “Capture” is much better designed and executed in terms of high-tech cyber terrorism), but the French-British duo Virginie Brac and Stephen Hopkins made everything so complicated and complicated that it lost momentum very quickly and started to fall apart after a while. There is also a first-class cast that tries very hard to save “Liasion”, but as time goes by, it messes up more and more, goes in some rather illogical, and on the other hand, often in too obvious directions, so it definitely turned out significantly weaker than that which I expected, although passionate fans of thrillers may not be too disappointed.