Spy_Games_Movie_Review

Spy Games Movie Review Tony Scott proves himself as a director in his newest film Spy Game (2001). Although he built his reputation working with top-producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer in Top Gun (1986), Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), and Crimson Tide (1995), his directing talent has been long overlooked due to his more popular older brother, Ridley Scott, until now. Spy Game gives us an in depth view of the world of espionage. On Agent Nathan Muir’s (Robert Redford) last day in the CIA (of course), he gets news that his old protégé and friend Tom Bishop (Brad Pitt) has been captured by the Chinese government on a mission and is scheduled to be executed within the next twenty-four hours. The CIA refuses to risk saving Bishop, so Muir decides to take the task upon himself. In the process of uncovering more information about Bishop’s whereabouts, Muir unravels his and Bishop’s past together, and puts himself at odds with top CIA officials, who are trying to keep him in the dark. Despite the fact that the story takes place mostly in the present, Muir narrates, in a series of flashbacks, how he recruited and trained Bishop muir, film, bishop, scott, himself, game, cia, bishop’s, top, tony, spy, past, world, throughout, story, scenes, overly, one, kept, keep, involved, flashbacks, feel, director, directed, depiction, between, been, zooms, written, worth, working, woman, witty, within