Spy Game (2001)
Average Rating: 6.2/10
Reviews Counted: 131
Fresh: 86 | Rotten: 45
The outcome of the kinetic Spy Game is never in doubt, but it is fun watching Robert Redford and Brad Pitt work.
Average Rating: 6.6/10
Critic Reviews: 31
Fresh: 22 | Rotten: 9
The outcome of the kinetic Spy Game is never in doubt, but it is fun watching Robert Redford and Brad Pitt work.
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Brad Pitt is reunited as a co-star with his A River Runs Through It (1992) director Robert Redford for this espionage thriller from Tony Scott. On the verge of retirement from the Central Intelligence Agency, veteran spy Nathan Muir (Redford) learns that his one-time protégé Tom Bishop (Pitt) has gone rogue and been taken prisoner after attempting to smuggle a prisoner out of China. Although Muir and Bishop had once been close friends, sharing adventures from Vietnam to Berlin, bad blood and
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Robert Redford
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Brad Pitt
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Catherine McCormack
Elizabeth Hadley -
Stephen Dillane
Charles Harker -
Larry Bryggman
Troy Folger -
Michael Paul Chan
Vincent Vy Ngo -
Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Gladys Jennip -
Ken Leung
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David Hemmings
Harry Duncan -
Matthew Marsh
Dr. Byars -
Todd Boyce
Robert Aiken -
Amidou
The Sheik's Doctor -
Charlotte Rampling
Anne Cathcart -
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All Critics (147) | Top Critics (35) | Fresh (88) | Rotten (46) | DVD (35)
The performances are the biggest asset.
Top CriticI'll admit the main story is implausible, but the flashbacks were spectacular, and the cast is really good here.
It's clever and shows great control of craft, but it doesn't care, and so it's hard for us to care about.
A yawn, and the two glamour boys (who, by the way, look awful) are both snoring.
Happily, beneath the film's nostalgic veneer and tooth-rattling visual and aural effects lies a mature ambiguity that's unusual for a holiday blockbuster.
Redford dazzles in his best role in decades.
A smart thriller for grown-ups.
Two generations of Hollywood 'golden boys' team up in Tony Scott's Spy Game, a neatly plotted espionage thriller. [Blu-ray]
... afterwards I realized that I had been maneuvered into rooting for a dangerously reckless and presumptuous man.
...takes the spy formula and dilutes it with wholly unnecessary plot twists and a flashback structure that's more confusing than anything else.
This is Brad Pitt, for crying out loud! Where can you send him undercover? In the CIA's Beverly Hills bureau?
Redford is great - treat the rest on a don't-need-to-know basis.
It just isn't thrilling enough -- an impression compounded by Scott's tiresomely overenthusiastic and gimmicky camerawork.
Audience Reviews for Spy Game
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- Nathan Muir: Technology gets better everyday. That's fine. But most of the time all you need is a stick of gum, a pocket knife and a smile.
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