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Spy Game (2001)
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3.7 out of 5.0 stars 12 Ratings (10 Reviews)

  • Overall:

    No, really I love breaking into prisons.

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Jul 15, 2002

    love the food, friends I meet and the constant torturess beatings I get. Anyway my dad will get me out. Brad Pitt is a CIA operative who trys to save his girlfriend but is caught and sentence to die, only Robert Redford can save him by playing the po...ker with the CIA. Good movie. Read more Less

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  • Overall:

    Average Movie

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Jun 4, 2002

    OK film. Spy Game had too many spy games within itself that made for a confusing plot.Redford and Pitt could have shined better with a better script.Not bad to rent but I wouldn't pluck down 15-20 bucks to buy it.

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    Spy Game (Excellent)

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  May 3, 2002

    This is one of the best movies I have seen in a long time. Only smart people would really like this movie. I had to buy this on DVD. It's a must have.

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    Spy Game

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Apr 27, 2002

    I enjoyed this movie very much, it was well written, acted and directed. It gives one a glimpse behind the scene of the CIA, the infighting and the power plays. Redford, Pitt and McCormack give very credible perfomances.The action scenes were very cr...edible without going over board, well woth watching.Richard Read more Less

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  • Overall:

    Big disappointment

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Apr 26, 2002

    Overall it was a big let down. The plot was rediculous and the narrative was choppy and disjointed. The acting was skillful (what would you expect from Pitt and Redford), but the script was lacking any kind of plausible development. There were jus...t too many points in the film where you say to yourself "why did that happen???" And not because the plot is too complex, but because the writers are so concerned with maintaining their break-neck pacing, that they wont slow down and allow things to develop logicially. The characters motivations are muddy and shallow at best. I mean, one of the subplots obviously was Pitt falling in love with that girl, but why? They were on screen together for, like, 2 minutes total, and then he's willing to risk everything to save her? Rediculous. And what's more is that Redford is able to go behind the back of the entire US Government to arrange a rediculous incursion into the prison where Pitt is being held. I mean, how was it so easy? I guess I wont ruin the "intricacies" of the plan by giving away specifics, but needless to say they're all pretty implausible. The great thing about spy films is the intellectual element. It's not about shooting up buildings and outrunning fireballs, but using your brains to out maneuver your opponent. The problem with this film is that the writers have no interest, for whatever reason, in making a spy film, nor are they really making an action film. It's the pretention that this movie is somthing that it is not that is it's most glaring flaw. They wrote themselves into a corner by creating a crisis situation which they themselves had no idea how to resolve. So in the end they managed to tack on a rediculous and impossible solution which could only be satisfying on the most superficial level. Think about it for one second and it's all pretty clear. The film was patronizing and insulting in it's simplicity, and lousy for all of it's open ended, un-answered questions. (How come they saved Brad Pitt, but not the Chinese guys who were helping him break in? Don't they count? But they saved his terrorist girlfriend???? She's just going to jail when they get her back, right?????????) There are some interesting moments, though, especially in Berlin. It is pretty cool, too, to think that this kind of stuff actually happens. In that sense it can be interesting to watch, though anyone expecting a sense of realism will be disappointed early on as Brad Pitt shoots down an attack helicopter with an AK-47. Read more Less

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  • Overall:

    i useally give 5's

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Apr 25, 2002

    I must atmite it was not the best I have seen. But I also admite it was interessting, and also it was emostion composision in th e movie, witch is nice to seen. So I rate it a 3.

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    Spy Game

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Apr 13, 2002

    Very well acted by all major characters. I watched the movie with four people and four out of five agreed it was very good. This is a very unusual reaction for my crowd. The movie kept our interest even if we all seemed to know the outcome. Most o...f us thought the director did a credible though not spectacular job. Read more Less

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  • Overall:

    super

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Apr 10, 2002

    you have to see this movie

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  • Overall:

    I would have to say boo...

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Apr 3, 2002

    I didnt think this movie was all it was cracked up to be, very boring. Long explination of the plot, and ending went very quick. If you are looking for action this is not your movie, if you are looking for sneakiness and two facing with alot of dra...ma then its ok. Think of it as Ocean's Eleven with no comedy, or action. Read more Less

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  • Overall:

    Got played?

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Dec 4, 2001

    “It's not how you play the game. It's how the game plays you.” No truer words have spoken on this hard lesson of love, lust and relationship. Thanks to “Spy Game”, we now learn there is another arena where ‘players’ play – espionage. And it... involves three individuals: Robert Redford – the player, Brad Pitt – the played, and Catherine McCormack – the bait.The film opens with the capture of an espionage agent Tom Bishop (Pitt). News of his capture reaches a retiring CIA operative Nathan Muir (Redford), his one-time teacher. In a cross-examination by the CIA brasses, Muir narrates the career profile of his one-time protégé via a series of flashback sequences. Espionage looks exciting, if Bishop’s life is any indication – tremendous explosions, people getting killed, many heated arguments with superiors, and sleeping with a total stranger. A good director also helps, and Tony Scott is to be commended for his visually stunning treatment of the sequences. Each is a riveting yet grim presentation of a day in the life of a spy. You’d think you’re watching a full-length episode in each sequence.Within 24 hours, Muir plays the biggest game of his life to rescue Bishop, after finding out that his mission was to rescue, of all things, a female prisoner Elizabeth Hadley (McCormack) who is imprisoned in China and whom Bishop frequently sleeps with. Errr… no, they are not in love, not really. There are no exchanges of “I love you” between the two.“Spy Game” shows that Muir can still play the game very well even in his retirement. If the movie attempts to convey that true love conquers all even in the world of espionage, it is overshadowed by Muir’s playing ways. Scott needed a conclusion that does not ooze a romantic happily-ever-after schmuck to screenwriter Michael Frost Beckner’s masterpiece. So he had the leading spotlight on Muir, and in the process relegating Bishop to a flashback character by downplaying Bishop’s daring prison rescue. Little of Bishop is shown after his capture, except in the flashbacks. And Scott makes it clear that Bishop’s own rescue is Muir’s design.Clearly, Muir is the biggest player of all. He played Bishop and the CIA bosses, though one would wonder if he played himself by spending his retirement savings to spring Bishop and his partner from prison. More importantly, why would he even care for someone whom he no longer is on speaking and professional terms with for more than 5 years? Bishop, as smart as he thinks he is, never realizes that he is being played by Muir and, to a lesser degree, Hadley – no better bait than sexual temptation. Speaking of Hadley, her character background is unknown. Aside from a brief explanation why she had to flee London and her global charity service, that is little factoid about her. Her presence in the film is clear: to feed Bishop’s sexual fix. It seems that the only reason why he goes out to rescue her from a communist prison is so that he can bed her once more. But wait a minute! Why is a woman imprisoned in an all-men’s prison? (Look, I know this is China, and last time I checked, the Chinese do not practice co-ed housing!) But seriously, McCormack’s talent is wasted here. She is quite alluring as Bishop’s squeeze sporting a British accent, but nothing in her performance stands out or is remotely memorable. Read more Less

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