Synopsis
On the day of his retirement, a veteran CIA agent learns that his former protégé has been arrested in China, is sentenced to die the next morning in Beijing, and that the CIA is considering letting that happen to avoid an international scandal.
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Cast
- Robert RedfordNathan D. Muir
- Brad PittTom Bishop
- Catherine McCormackElizabeth Hadley
- Stephen DillaneCharles Harker
- Larry BryggmanTroy Folger
- Marianne Jean-BaptisteGladys Jennip
- Matthew MarshDr. William Byars
- Todd BoyceRobert Aiken
- Michael Paul ChanVincent Vy Ngo
- Garrick HagonCIA Director Cy Wilson
Recommendations
- 80
Washington Post
With its cast of back-stabbing functionaries and desk jockeys, Spy Game makes the sport and hard work of espionage seem chillingly real. - 80
Village Voice
Happily, beneath the film's nostalgic veneer and tooth-rattling visual and aural effects lies a mature ambiguity that's unusual for a holiday blockbuster -- and all but unheard of in a Tony Scott movie. - 75
New York Daily News
The script provides an excellent payoff, although action fans may not agree, because that payoff is the equivalent of a Cheshire cat's grin. - 75
Chicago Tribune
If you like Redford, Spy Game will be a real treat: a fast electric thriller full of the old Sundance charm and pizzazz. - 75
Entertainment Weekly
The film is brimming with plots, counterplots, dossiers, and sinister corrupt priorities, all held together by the telephoto obsidian gloss of Scott's look-ma-no-pauses style. - 75
Miami Herald
The movie asks tough, unflinching questions about America's responsibility to maintain world peace -- and the price we are willing to pay in order to accomplish that. Timely stuff, indeed. - 70
Salon
Manages to be entertaining and reasonably exciting. Scott's style may be slick and tricky but, if this and his last film, "Enemy of the State," are any indication, he's lost the glossy sadism that characterized his previous work. - 67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
It's well-plotted, acted with a charismatic flair and right on the zeitgeist.
