Eye Candy #343 - "Eye of the Needle"

Eye of the Needle:  Based on the 1978 best seller by Ken Follett,  “Eye of the Needle” hasn’t aged gracefully.  Donald Sutherland is German spy the Needle, who is undercover in Britain during the run-up to Operation Overlord and finds evidence of the true landing location of the D-Day invasion.  Pursued by British forces, he finds himself on the barely inhabited Storm Island off the coast of Scotland, waiting to abscond on a u-boat with his microfilm..  While there, he seduces a lonely housewife (Kate Nelligan), while arranging his escape until she realizes who he is and what he‘s done.  Although billed as a WW2 spy caper, it devolves into your standard psycho killer picture fairly easily.  It also has some weird anachronisms (like use of a fairly advanced helicopter towards the end of the picture when no such vehicle existed).  While Sutherland is perfectly fine in sinister spy mode, he is almost the least believable romantic lead I’ve ever seen.  This film bored the heck out of me.  Couldn’t end soon enough.  Woodchuck sez, “Skip it.”