What is wrong with some of you people? Hollywood feeds you the same crap over and over and yet you gobble it up indiscriminately just the same.
1. Robert Redford is friggin' 65 years of age for God Sakes. No amount of soft lighting is going to change that.
2. Use some Goddamn makeup. If we are to believe that Brad Pitt's character was back in Nam, he shouldn't look EXACTLY the same many decades later.
3. Just because Redford's character is "old school" shouldn't mean that all of his "new school" superiors should be posed as complete idiots.
4. I neither give a damn about the cliche of Pitt's character risking it all for a woman.
5. Nor do I give a damn about Redford's character coming to the realization that he's become emotionally hardened by the spy game and should make an attempt at redeeming himself.
6. Flashbacks are rarely a convincing plot device. Hence, don't use them!
7. This film creeps at a snail's pace.
8. Mr. Scott, we already saw all of that amazing (but frenzied) aerial camera work in Enemy of the State (1998). There it was creative and useful. Here, in Spy Game, it's just silly and distracting.
9. In all, I found Spy Game so totally uninvolving, I was ready to walk out the theatre after the first 20-minutes. Too bad I didn't.
6/10
1. Robert Redford is friggin' 65 years of age for God Sakes. No amount of soft lighting is going to change that.
2. Use some Goddamn makeup. If we are to believe that Brad Pitt's character was back in Nam, he shouldn't look EXACTLY the same many decades later.
3. Just because Redford's character is "old school" shouldn't mean that all of his "new school" superiors should be posed as complete idiots.
4. I neither give a damn about the cliche of Pitt's character risking it all for a woman.
5. Nor do I give a damn about Redford's character coming to the realization that he's become emotionally hardened by the spy game and should make an attempt at redeeming himself.
6. Flashbacks are rarely a convincing plot device. Hence, don't use them!
7. This film creeps at a snail's pace.
8. Mr. Scott, we already saw all of that amazing (but frenzied) aerial camera work in Enemy of the State (1998). There it was creative and useful. Here, in Spy Game, it's just silly and distracting.
9. In all, I found Spy Game so totally uninvolving, I was ready to walk out the theatre after the first 20-minutes. Too bad I didn't.
6/10