2001 Directed by Tony Scott
On the day of his retirement, a veteran CIA agent learns that his former protégé has been arrested in China, is sentenced to die the next morning in Beijing, and that the CIA is considering letting that happen to avoid an international scandal.
Universal Pictures Metropolitan Filmexport Toho-Towa Beacon Communications Kalima Productions GmbH & Co. KG Red Wagon Productions
間諜遊戲, Jogo de Espiões, Kémjátszma, جاسوس بازی, Spy game - Jeu d'espions
brad pitt: it's not a fuckin game!
robert redford: oh yes it is. that's exactly what it is. and it's no kid's game either. this is a whole other game. and it's serious and it's dangerous and it's not one you wanna lose.
this is actual dialogue from spy game (2001). i highly recommend spy kids (2001) instead! ☺️
refreshing in its pragmatism about espionage as opposed to the usual moral handwringing, and without being heartless. it also doesn't try to be timely, freeing the story up to be a melodrama with an especially tantalizing and complicated historical backdrop. in a lot of ways this feels like the other Scott brother's movie. it's telling that when Ridley eventually lifted it you got the largely identical but way more self-satisfied & trite BODY OF LIES.
I love spy movies, but I tend to get overly critical when they aim for a 'this is what real spies do' feel. Let's be honest, if we really knew what was going on in the world of espionage, the world of espionage wouldn't be doing its job properly.
Spy Game leans towards that sense if realism in so far that it takes place in the real world and keeps the action rather spartan focussing on what it should be focussing on, telling an intriguing and engaging spy story. In that they succeed for the most part and that is most definitely due to two things, the narrative structure and the Redford/Pitt match up.
I'm glad Scott decided to place…
Tony Scott was a director who knew how to make an action film. In the late eighties and early nineties he delivered some of the most iconic moments in the genre. From Top Gun to Days Of Thunder, from The Last Boy Scout to Crimson Tide, he had a habit of making sometimes rather cheesy scripted movies just that little bit better. He also knew how to attract star names, and Spy Game certainly has them.
Robert Redford plays a CIA case officer who gets a heads-up on his last day before retirement that one of his former proteges (played by Brad Pitt) has been captured in China while attempting to free a political prisoner. Redford is summoned to a…
"Spy Game" is a flash in the pan political thriller from Tony Scott. All style and barely any substance, "Spy Game" was a tedious affair from beginning to end. The constant adderall fueled quick cutting along with scenes that that wouldn't sit still for my than a minute left me feeling completely cold and withdrawn from the movie.
The film is propped up by stellar performances from the always sauve and cool Robert Redford and Robert redford Jr. AKA Brad Pitt. The pair have really good chemistry throughout and together they make the film worth watching.
The rest of the film however, is pretty boring. The script didn't retain my interest as it darts all over the place from different…
Tony Scott's Spy Game paired up one Hollywood legend with, arguably, his successor, in a taut spy thriller that focuses on a veteran CIA Agent's last day before retirement, and his efforts to save his former protégé from a death sentence. Robert Redford's Muir is being debriefed by his superiors who want background on his former acquaintance, who has been captured in China and accused of espionage. Through flashbacks we learn more about Muir's relationship with Tom Bishop, a young Brad Pitt, who Muir recruited in Vietnam. With Bishop's detention coming at a delicate time for the US, the CIA is eager to deny Bishop's existence and let him die. Cue Muir, who uses all his guile to facilitate a…
The scene where brad pitt threw the chair off the roof reminded me so much of the "I did not hit her!!" scene in 'the room', that it actually took me out of the movie
A thoroughly mediocre movie. Even by 2001 standards this feels extremely dated, and of a piece with a lesser TV show like 24. Brad Pitt isn't really doing much here, with the weight of performance mostly assigned to a game Robert Redford. I actually might have quite enjoyed this if it didn't have such a frenetic, overly edited production style - if the camera lingered more on moments. Essentially, this should have been 20% more of a John le Carre thriller. Keep some of the action elements, but tighten things up!
Am meisten unterhalten hat mich, dass sich Robert Redford und Brad Pitt verdammt ähnlich sehen. Wie Vater und Sohn. So könnte man auch die Beziehung der beiden in Spy Game beschrieben. Ihr Zusammenspiel ist dabei noch am besten.
Ansonsten ist der Film weder spannend noch visuell bemerkenswert. Daher kommt er nicht über einen durchschnittlichen Action-Thriller hinaus, der sich obendrein ganz schön zieht.
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