The last true performance of Phillip Seymour Hoffman (discounting his role in the upcoming Hunger Games films), A Most Wanted Man is a melancholy film made all the more depressing by the untimely passing of Mr. Hoffman. Based on the novel of legendary spy author John le Carre, it follows the fate of a suspicious Chechen immigrant who may or may not have jihadist intentions. Hoffman plays a German intelligence officer stationed in Hamburg who is tasked with uncovering the intentions and possible connections to prominent Islamic radicals of the suspected terrorist . The film touches on a number of pressing contemporary issues such as Islamic terrorism and intrusive government surveillance, but perhaps the biggest theme of the film is the subversive evils of the all-powerful bureaucracy. Anger and frustration over the lack of clarity and vision with massive bureaucracies is a prevalent theme in much of the best art of the 21st century, but it has hardly ever been as wrenchingly articulated as it is in A Most Wanted Man. The gut-punch ending, which stirs up a myriad of different emotions given Hoffman's death, is a particularly devastating scene that sticks with you long after the film's finish.