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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780783263618
Format: Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0783263619
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 09, 2002
Running Time: 127 minutes
Sales Rank: 6634
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
A thinking person's thriller, Spy Game employs dense plotting without sacrificing the kinetic momentum that is director Tony Scott's trademark. The film has the byzantine scope of a novel, focusing on veteran CIA operative Nathan Muir (Robert Redford), whose protégé Tom Bishop (Brad Pitt) is scheduled for execution in a Chinese prison. It's Muir's last day before retiring (cliché alert!), and Bishop is being deliberately sacrificed by oily CIA officials to ensure healthy trade with China. Muir has 24 hours to rescue Bishop and his perfunctory love interest (Catherine McCormack), and Spy Game connects the mentor's end-run strategy to flashbacks of his student's exploits in Berlin, Beirut, and beyond. Ambitious but emotionally bland--and not as exciting as Scott's Enemy of the State--Spy Game offers pass-the-torch humor between leather-faced Redford and pretty boy Pitt, and although their dialogue is occasionally limp, the movie compensates with efficient style and substance. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Neat Twist on Spy Movies
This was a pretty typical spy movie, fast-moving, double-agents, all that stuff. However, most of the real-time action in the movie takes place in an office. I found this part of the movie to be interesting and taut, and it was more than a little refreshing for the genre. Robert Redford plays a great smart-[expletive deleted], and I enjoyed the office scenes a lot. The flashbacks were good at times, but tended toward the saccharine. Can't say I'm thrilled with the ending, either, but it wasn't ... Read More
Rating:  - Great Movies
This is a great spy film with Robert Redford and Brad Pitt. You must watch every scene very closely because there is so much going on that you don't realize what's happening. Every time I watch the DVD I see something I didn't pick up on before. Excellent movie.
Rating: - Intelligence Case Officer Training - Key Lesson
This film has excellent examples of the psychological dimensions of clandestine case officers. I particular like the training sequences. The focus on people skills, psychology, etc. I believe a British spy television program revealed that the one training exercise in which Brad Pitt (the trainee) has to get invited onto an apartment owner's balcony with the owner present and give a toast to Redford (the trainer) down below within minutes/seconds, was inspired from Mossad's officer training program. ... Read More
Rating:  - Spy Game
This is a film I've been wanting for a long time but I really got stung with this purchase ! The Format is HD DVD which, I found out AFTER I opened the package and attempted to view it, not only does not work with MY DVD Player, is apparently in a Format that is destined for the cemetary. I'm Sure Amazon was aware of that fact when they listed it for sale and, in fact, it Was identified as being HD DVD. However, to a neophyte like me, it didn't "Ring a Bell" that I wouldn't be able to play it without ... Read More
Rating:  - An excellent Redford performance
This is one Robert Redford performance I really enjoy. He has created a number of memorable characters during his long career but this role is so intelligently crafted and played with utter sincerity that it is for me a standout. Redford is a CIA employee at the end of his career and the film shows his career over a number of years as it interacts with Brad Pitt, who is an idealistic assassin. Redford's bosses want information on Pitt and are questioning Redford and the mind games commence. It is unusual ... Read More
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