Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: A Le Carre classic

This is a film of the book by John Le Carré, previously serialized by the BBC. Now I have enjoyed reading Le Carré and the TV series was exciting but I cannot get enthusiastic about this film. I thought the direction was very muddled. The plot (this won't give away anything important) is about the efforts to track down a `mole' in the upper echelons of the British Secret Service. The whole film jumps back and forth between the present and the past, and I was never sure exactly which I was watching. One of the protagonists gets shot in the end (as a traitor?) but another is dispatched to Moscow and yet another to Siberia. Were they all traitors? Was it in fact a conspiracy? I just thought the whole thing was a disorganised mess. The two stars are for the authentic Cold War atmosphere and the quality of the acting: but -1* for the direction.