The base idea is fun. Just discovered that it was based on real life translation of Dan Brown's Inferno. And overall it was an ok watch. However I found more defects than good points. First the pacing and editing are weird and it struggles a bit to find its rhythm, between current events, flashbacks, flash forwards, trying to build several mysteries that are not that interesting. Also some parts only make sense as plot distractions. I mean they're only here so that there can be a reveal moment, followed by a counter reveal in the movie, but the counter reveal clearly makes everything that happened before irrelevant, and useless when in the point of view of the one that knows. I'm talking about the whole metro plan. Well first, when following a single line, even without doing anything else, there's basically no way for a car to be faster than a metro. But 15 minutes. Take out 2 to get out and get to the shop, [spoiler]1 to open the briefcase, 1 to split, set up the printers, collect, put back, 1.5 to print[/spoiler], 1 to get out of the car and back in. Those are low estimates. So the car needs to do the same distance twice faster than the metro. And it is explicitly at the wrong possible time for cars, when everyone gets out of office. And what was the point of that ? [spoiler]To make the other believe it was done.[/spoiler] But why ? Why the need to have [spoiler]that many people onboard[/spoiler] ? To just help a bit with misdirection so that [spoiler]the content of automatic mails matches[/spoiler] ? Think of the danger involved in [spoiler]recruiting all of them. Would have been much easier to just recruit Rose-Marie.[/spoiler] It tries to portray [spoiler]Goodman[/spoiler] as a super mastermind, but the plan sucked so much that people died. And it's just extreme luck that [spoiler]himself didn't die[/spoiler]. Pretty shitty. As for the several mysteries. - The one he's talking to in prison. The fact that he talks so informally directly reduces it to [spoiler]Rose-Marie, as his low level assistant, Goodman, young with shitty status, maybe Katerina, if he had become more intimate with her[/spoiler]. - It's apparent very early that he probably [spoiler]killed Georges[/spoiler], why keep this until the end ? - The how the content was leaked is fun (even if [spoiler]fake and impossible[/spoiler]) - The fact that [spoiler]he is Brach[/spoiler] was unexpected but I don't think it really served the story except as a twist. Last point, Angstrom is such a stereotypical low level capitalist villain. Really not much of an antagonist.

Too many unbelievable decisions from the characters for me to enjoy it fully. Most of them involving the book publisher’s outlandish, over the top antics. I wasn’t sure if it was meant to be camp or Wilson is just a terrible actor but the stakes are just not high enough for him to be that maniacal. Lawther’s performance was far more credible and believable and his character was almost a saving grace. The evil Russian trope was on the nose too.

I didn’t give this a very good rating but I am happy I watched it. FLY’s review captures what I thought https://trakt.tv/comments/804860

With a script and under the direction of Régis Roinsard (who was also in charge of the fun "Populaire", available on Apple TV), "The Translators" is an exciting thriller based on a social criticism of the publishing world: how voracious companies have no love for literature as art but only for books as products that generate money for them. The whole movie is full of intrigue and the script generates a story that progresses with a great rhythm that does not let you rest at any time. The problem is perhaps the end, because of all the characters who make us interested, we do not know its outcome, only the protagonist and antagonist. Definitely recommendable, and now that it was finally released in Mexico (it's a 2019 film) it's an excellent opportunity to enjoy contemporary French cinema.

Literary thriller that misses a cast of international actors with poorly constructed characters. The plot starts out interesting, but the development is lost in a disastrous guessing game that is boring, because the ending is too predictable. Good music by Yun Miyake.