All the Old Knives

2022 - 4 - 9

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What Were the 'All the Old Knives' Filming Locations? Let's Look (Distractify)

Prime Video's newest thriller 'All the Old Knives' stars Chris Pine and Thandiwe Newton, but where were the filming locations? Here's the scoop.

KSBW also recorded a list of locations present in the script where filming would take place. Similarly, All the Old Knives took the production to London in December 2020, as revealed in director Janus Metz Pedersen's Facebook posts. So, where was All the Old Knives filmed?

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All The Old Knives True Story: Henry's Real-Life Russian Crisis ... (Screen Rant)

Amazon's All the Old Knives follows the CIA as they attempt to stop a terrorist attack, which the film connects to a real-life 2002 hostage crisis.

All the Old Knives’ CIA crisis features many connections to 9/11 in terms of the plane hijacking, with the Amazon Original movie also citing that Putin had described Moscow’s Nord-Ost siege as their own 9/11. This detail explains why the CIA had so much involvement with the true hostage crisis, as it was only one year after the United States’ most devastating terrorist event. After the Nord-Ost siege ended in a disaster and the Russians had information on a future attack, the CIA had to give up one of their Chechen sources in order to achieve such details, with Henry choosing to expose Ilyas. While the primary CIA case in All the Old Knives is fictional, the film makes several mentions of Henry’s past work on the real-life Russian Nord-Ost siege.

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Review: All the Old Knives Gives Chris Pine a Perfectly Serviceable ... (thirdcoastreview.com)

In this film, he plays veteran CIA operative Henry Pelham, who was part of a team years earlier that was assigned to stop terrorists who had hijacked a plane in ...

If Celia is the mole, the film gives her a compelling reason why she might be and an even better examination of the trauma she suffered after the hijacking went so very wrong, even if it was her fault. All the Old Knives is structured like a time puzzle, featuring a present day dinner meeting with Celia, who now lives in California and is married with kids; flashbacks to the incident in question; and Pelham’s interview with Compton two weeks earlier in London, really putting the screw on him thanks to a phone record that shows a call to one of the terrorists from Compton’s office. In the present day, Pelham’s commanding officer (Laurence Fishburne) charges him with reopening the investigation into what went wrong when it is believed that someone on the team was feeding the terrorists information on what the CIA’s plan was to get into the plane and save the hostages.

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How 'All The Old Knives' Refreshes The Tired, Old Spy Movie Trope - (Rolling Stone India)

Expect the unexpected from this espionage thriller. There's nothing stereotypical about this stellar Amazon Prime Video film. ... Cinema has spy movies down to a ...

The terrorist attack that occurs in All The Old Knives is the disastrous hijacking of Royal Jordanian Flight 127 which ends in an avoidable massacre. In All The Old Knives, Henry and Celia are deconstructed as human beings and professionals who war with the demands of their high-stakes job and the pull of their passionate personal lives. But Danish director Janus Metz Pedersen’s All The Old Knives (streaming on Amazon Prime Video) reinvents the tired, old spy movie genre by tapping into the power of the personal amidst a tale of socio-political intrigue.

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All The Old Knives Twist Ending Explained (In Detail) (Screen Rant)

The Chris Pine-starring All the Old Knives sees a major twist ending as two CIA operatives and ex-lovers uncover the truth of a disastrous past case.

The end of All the Old Knives suggests that had Henry never given up Ilyas as his source of information, the Flight 127 hijacking never would have happened, nor would he have become an extremist. After Henry dies, Celia tells the CIA to never contact her or her family again, proving she was motivated by leaving all of the pain of Flight 127 behind her. Henry had a hitman, Treble, on-call at the restaurant to kill Celia if he gave the word, which suggests that Henry was still willing to kill Celia even though he knew that she was innocent. After All the Old Knives’ twist ending reveals that Henry was the mole all along, every odd detail from the dinner becomes more apparent as a clue to his guilt, such as the strange waiter switch-up toward the end of their meeting. Henry thought that he was in the clear with Vick and could use Bill and Celia as the scapegoats, even having a hitman on standby to kill Celia if need be, but Celia reveals at the last minute that she was the one who arranged the meeting with Henry through Vick, not the other way around. As the tension builds during All the Old Knives’ present-day meal, Celia and Henry must confront the past as they reflect on the details of the Flight 127 case, the inconsistencies of the fateful day, who the CIA traitor was, and why Celia left Henry the morning after the disaster.

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