From 49362864c9545039c5440def4dcf344da3f0f60d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Julio Biason Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2020 12:37:57 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] Movie review: Spy Game --- content/reviews/movies/spy-game.md | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/reviews/movies/spy-game.md diff --git a/content/reviews/movies/spy-game.md b/content/reviews/movies/spy-game.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..67ce4b7 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/reviews/movies/spy-game.md @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ ++++ +title = "Spy Game (2001)" +date = 2020-11-28 + +[taxonomies] +tags = ["movies", "reviews", "thriller", "brad pitt", "robert redford"] ++++ + +[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. + + + +{{ stars(stars=2) }} + +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... + +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. + +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. + +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.