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Movie Reviews of Spy Games
Movie Review: Silly in Helsinki
Summary: 3 Stars
Although I loved the Finland local. The movie was silly. Wish it was better.Movie Review: A jumbled mess
Summary: 2 Stars
The Cold War is over and two adversarial spies (Bill Pullman and Irene Jacob) fall in love and dream of living a normal life. There is trouble in paradise, however, since they find themselves on opposite sides of an attempt to pass satellite codes to the Russians encoded into a homemade porno film. This is a good premise for an international thriller, but the execution does a belly flop.This film was produced in Finland to very low filmmaking standards. Since I haven't seen many Finnish films, I can't say whether this is typical or atypical, but it was full of bad scene setups, plot inconsistencies and generally poor directing. The soundtrack was jazzy and nice, but it often didn't fit with the scenes to which it was applied.
Director Ilkka Jarvi-Laturi was trying to present this as a lighthearted romantic comedy and international thriller, but it was marginal on the first count and a disaster on the second. Bill Pullman can carry off the lovable romantic hero role, but as a spy, he is a joke. Irene Jacob was better at handling the two aspects of the role, but the dialogue was so excruciating that her acting talent and beauty were not enough to save it.
Jacob and Pullman had some chemistry in the romantic scenes, but both seemed flummoxed in the comedic espionage scenes. This was some incredibly bad writing and it must have been very difficult for these actors to say their lines without kecking.
This film is a jumbled mess with terrible writing and amateurish direction. I rated it a 4/10. Be sure to miss it.
Movie Review: Spy Games
Summary: 2 Stars
Although I rated the movie 2 stars, I give 5 stars to the soundtrack. The plot of the movie was extremely spastic. The scenarios jumped around so much, without much cohesion, that one feels like they are spending most of the movie trying to discern what is going on and where it is leading. I enjoy movies with complicated plots, but somewhere along the line they need to be tied together. In my opinion, this one did not. I only watch movies over again when I have really enjoyed them. When this movie was over, I felt like I needed to watch it again to figure out the whole purpose. HOWEVER, this movie is worth watching solely for the purpose of listening to the 5.1 soundtrack. It has one of the best audio musical formats I have heard in a movie. In fact, sometimes the music overpowered the dialog, which, in the case of this movie, was just as well.Movie Review: boring
Summary: 2 Stars
The script is clever i admit, but when it becomes a movie, it makes me fall asleep. Jacob is wooden; i do like her but she can play limited roles, very limited. (Although, actually in this movie, this is not important completely.)Movie Review: Oh boy...
Summary: 1 Stars
I don't have any in-depth criticism or profound ideas in this review, but the one thing that I will say is that this is a film which ranks with worst films of all time. I should point out that this type of film -- the labrynthine espionage film -- is a particular favorite of mine, but this film is made so poorly, so unintelligibly, and with a complete lack of any type of originality, wit or invention, that it is impossible to like it. I saw a pan-and-scan version of this film, so maybe the widescreen print will be better. But, many of the problems of the film don't concern the aspect ratio or cinematography. There are some horrible editing gaffs (in one sequence Bill Pullman's character jumps about 50 feet and to the other side of the room to catch a phone, then in the next shot he is on the OPPOSITE side of the room and walking out a door) and a handful of illogical plot twists (one scene, involving a mysterious background, has a character completing a job which requires this background to be complete, but when another character walks in, he says to him, 'Come on, stop sitting around and help me finish this background so I can start this job...'). The worst element, though, is that the filmmakers and the cast believe they are making some hip and edgy product. It's painful to watch, because all the jokes are telephoned in miles ahead of time, and are spoiled by horrible comic timing, poor editing, and the type of music score that starts playing sounds on 'funny' instruments to tell you it's time to laugh. This is about as bad as they come, unfortunetly.