Movie review: Spy Game

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