This is a curious movie: an old man goes undercover in a care home to investigate allegations of abuse, but at the same time, the makers of this film negotiated with the home to make a documentary movie about them. Was the care home likely to agree to the latter if they were really so terrible? And there's little drama in the agent's undercover reporting, as a TV crew is following him around as he does it. In this sense, the film never escapes the feeling of being set up, and unsurprisingly, we don't uncover any great wrongdoing. What we do see are some sad, sweet, and very human stories about the last phase of life. It's not a bad film per se; but it might have worked better as a straightforward fly-on-the-wall style documentary.
Review of The Mole Agent
