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Spy Game [Blu-ray]

Spy Game [Blu-ray]
by Tony Scott

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Actor: Brad Pitt, Catherine McCormack, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Michael Paul Chan, Robert Redford
Director: Tony Scott
Brand: Universal Studios
Blu-ray: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 127 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: 2009-05-26
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Universal Studios Home Entertainment

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Movie Review: Brilliant and Gripping!
Summary: 5 Stars

The story line was about how Nathan Muir (Robert Redford), an almost retired CIA agent, developing plans by himself to rescue Tom Bishop (Brad Pitt), his protégé field agent, from China's captivity within 24 hours time frame.

Muir, on his last day at CIA, was informed that Bishop had been held captive at some China's prison. He sensed the US government would sacrifice Bishop in the case, for a more beneficial political result. He then counter-acted by his own, conjuring moves to release Bishop from prison at all cost, including his personal retired saving.

The scenes took turn between flashes back of Muir and Bishop's past encounters, and the current intelligence-contest between Muir and his bureaucrat colleagues in CIA headquarters. He smartly supplied what seemed like important and related information to his CIA colleagues, and at the same time, misdirected them to buying time working out his own plan. At the end, Muir's plan succeeded, and Bishop rescued from an almost-impossible-to-win situation.

It was gripping from the first minute to the last. It is necessary to watch this movie with eyes and ears sharp opened, to not missing any small and insignificant act, which turned out all playing role in the whole rescuing plan. Brilliant!

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Summary of Spy Game [Blu-ray]

When a top-secret, unauthorized mission goes awry, CIA agent Tom Bishop (Brad Pitt) is captured?and sentenced to die. With just 24 hours to get him out alive, Bishop?s boss, Nathan Muir (Robert Redford), must battle enemies abroad and the system inside the CIA to save his friend. Now the clock is ticking and the race is on ? as the deadliest game of all explodes into the spectacular, adrenaline-fueled thriller that ABC Radio says ?sizzles with suspense!?

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

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