There are quite a few wish that I can pay the new film Sleuth Game. First base, it’s much deeper than I expected it to be. Subsequently all, this is from director Tony Scott, a film creator that usually engages in commercially pleasing pictures (see Top Throttle). Secondly and more importantly, this is a yield to shape by image Robert Robert Redford who off in one of the most mediocre performances of his career in the overly melodramatic Last Castle.
Spy Game opens with CIA operative Tom Bishop (a magnetic Brad George Dibdin-Pitt) having a rescue try foiled in China and finding himself held in prison. Back in the states, ex-serviceman CIA military personnel Nathan Muir (an piquant Robert Charles Robert Redford) learns of Bishop’s catch. It seems these deuce vastly different men have a history. During a briefing with the highest powers in the CIA, Muir gives a profile of Bishop through a series of flashback sequences.
Pitt has often been compared to Redford in the early days. Charles Robert Redford even directed Pitt in the earnest A River Runs Through It. Observance these deuce towering stars work together is one of the things that really makes Spy Game soar. Robert Redford is wondrous here. He’s quietly potent as Muir and this is a movie that reminds us of why he’s the legend he is. Interestingly enough, this is variety of an extension of his memorable character in Three Days of the Condor.
Pitt offers up the perfect contrast as Bishop. He’s flashy but effective as a soldier with a heart. Of course director Scott factors in as well. He gives much insight into how the CIA deeds. And piece we got glimpses of similar activity in his Enemy of the State, this impression pulsates with a different kind of energy. Patch the story itself moves at a leisurely pace, Scott spruces things up with dynamic cinematography, nimble cutting, alternating film stocks and an interesting tale. At moments, this image feels like the love child of Oliver Stone and Boche Bruckheimer. The only veridical negative commentary I tin can make about the technical aspect of the film is that I matt-up the sexual conquest was a bit intrusive. This, of course, is a minor quibble.
Spy Game has a lancinate sense of timing as well. Given all that has happened in this country in the last couple of months, this picture seems to come across with it’s look at the exponent of government and the horror that is terrorist act.
In the end, nevertheless, this is only a movie, only an entertaining one. Pitt and Robert Redford are at their identical best, and Scott engineers them perfectly. Spy Game ended up being practically better than I expected it to be.