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title = "Spy Game (2001)"
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date = 2020-11-28
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updated = 2021-02-12
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tags = ["movies", "reviews", "thriller", "brad pitt", "robert redford",
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"stars:2"]
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[IMDB Summary](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266987/):
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Retiring CIA agent Nathan Muir recalls his training of Tom Bishop while working
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against agency politics to free him from his Chinese captors.
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{{ stars(stars=2) }}
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In this episode of Spy Game:... Wait, I mean... In this movie, Robert Redford
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plays a retiring spy that, in his last day in the office, finds out his
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protégé, played by Brad Pitt was captured. While trying to save him, each
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episode... I mean...
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Ok, fuck it, ok? The movie feels like someone wrote three-to-four episodes of a
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TV series and, when he couldn't sell it, turned into a movie. This makes the
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movie feel like a bunch of unconnected stories instead of one single story.
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While trying to explain why Redford character would care about Pitt character,
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they throw a bunch of stories about the way they met, how they worked together,
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their quarrels, and so on.
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Sure, you can explain the very last thing through a series of events, and some
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movies did this pretty fine (including showing things out of order, like "Pulp
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Fiction" and "Memento"), but here, again, it feels like someone wrote a series
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about spies in the CIA, with a mentor and his replacement and tried to make a
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movie out of.
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It even feels like Redford and Pitt tried their best to portrait a grizzly spy
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veteran who-have-seen-it-all and new trained spy who-still-cares-about-people,
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the stories doesn't help. And some stuff is just plain bad, like the uncanny
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ability of Redford character to read titles of papers showing in window
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reflections, to the surprise of everyone in the room.
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