"Spy Game" is good. It's not bad. It's not great. It's just... good. If ever there was a slightly-better-than-average-forgettable-enjoyable flick then this is it. It's already in the 6.5/10 range...
Acting is fine. Redford is his usual self and Pitt admirably does the wild-headed young man. Again. The plot is grand enough - interestingly it's basically Redford sitting around recounting past tales of Pitt's character - Bishop's - life. These stories are intended to fill us in on how Bishop came to be where he currently is - about to be executed in a Chinese prison. Redford's character - Muir - is trying to stop him and so needs to chat to get the resources and information to do so. It's a nice enough structure and works fine - and we do fill in gaps that make us go "oh so that's what he meant earlier" etc. Sure it's not original but effective.
The direction is generally fine except when Tony Scott goes insane and starts speeding the camera around like the Road Runner on amphetamines. It's a tad over the top lad - calm down..Other than that the movie goes along fairly briskly and we're kept reasonably entertained throughout. After seeing it I could shrug my shoulders and forget it all having pleasantly enough passed away the time. 6.5/10
Acting is fine. Redford is his usual self and Pitt admirably does the wild-headed young man. Again. The plot is grand enough - interestingly it's basically Redford sitting around recounting past tales of Pitt's character - Bishop's - life. These stories are intended to fill us in on how Bishop came to be where he currently is - about to be executed in a Chinese prison. Redford's character - Muir - is trying to stop him and so needs to chat to get the resources and information to do so. It's a nice enough structure and works fine - and we do fill in gaps that make us go "oh so that's what he meant earlier" etc. Sure it's not original but effective.
The direction is generally fine except when Tony Scott goes insane and starts speeding the camera around like the Road Runner on amphetamines. It's a tad over the top lad - calm down..Other than that the movie goes along fairly briskly and we're kept reasonably entertained throughout. After seeing it I could shrug my shoulders and forget it all having pleasantly enough passed away the time. 6.5/10