The performances are the biggest asset.
Spy Game
It's not how you play the game. It's how the game plays you.
2001 · 2h 6m · R
Action, Crime, Thriller
Directed by
Tony Scott
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Spy Game
Overview
On the day of his retirement, a veteran CIA agent learns that his former protégé has been arrested in China, is sentenced to die the next morning in Beijing, and that the CIA is considering letting that happen to avoid an international scandal.
Director and cast
- Tony Scott Director
- Robert Redford as Nathan Muir
- Brad Pitt as Tom Bishop
- Catherine McCormack as Elizabeth Hadley
- Stephen Dillane as Charles Harker
- Larry Bryggman as Troy Folger
- Marianne Jean-Baptiste as Gladys Jennip
- Matthew Marsh as Dr. Byars
- Todd Boyce as Robert Aiken
- Michael Paul Chan as Vincent Vy Ngo
- Garrick Hagon as Cy Wilson
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
I'll admit the main story is implausible, but the flashbacks were spectacular, and the cast is really good here.
It's clever and shows great control of craft, but it doesn't care, and so it's hard for us to care about.
A yawn, and the two glamour boys (who, by the way, look awful) are both snoring.
Happily, beneath the film's nostalgic veneer and tooth-rattling visual and aural effects lies a mature ambiguity that's unusual for a holiday blockbuster.
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