Review: Top-tier talent is just about enough to save ‘Liaison’ from mediocrity

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Globetrotting espionage thriller Liaison, which premieres on Apple from Feb. 24, brings together two formidable performers in Vincent Cassel (La Haine) and Eva Green (Penny Dreadful) for the first time, making this slick slice of bilingual cyber-terrorism an enticing prospect for anybody after some international espionage.

Created by Virginie Brac and Oliver Butcher, Liaison opens at a house party in Damascus, where Gabriel (Cassel) is playing poker and knocking back shots. In an audacious aerial transition, which speaks to the cinematic quality throughout, audiences are then bounced across a war-torn city to finally settle on Samir (Aziz Dyab), a Syrian native with serious cyber-crime skills, who possesses an elegant USB drive shaped like the Star of David.

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