Synopsis
When the Switchblade, the most sophisticated prototype stealth fighter created yet, is stolen from the U.S. government, one of the United States' top spies, Alex Scott, is called to action. What he doesn't expect is to get teamed up with a cocky civilian, World Class Boxing Champion Kelly Robinson, on a dangerous top secret espionage mission. Their assignment: using equal parts skill and humor, catch Arnold Gundars, one of the world's most successful arms dealers.
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Cast
- Eddie MurphyKelly Robinson
- Owen WilsonAlexander Scott
- Famke JanssenRachel
- Keith DallasLunchbox
- Malcolm McDowellGundars
- Yan-Kay Crystal LoweBeautiful Girl
- Gary ColeCarlos
- Bill MondyMcIntyre
- Lynda BoydEdna
- Phill LewisJerry
Recommendations
- 50
Entertainment Weekly
TV's ''I Spy'' knew how to swing. The movie 'I Spy knows only how to scramble and string together moments of Murphy braggadocio and Wilson stoner-ocity, and the sweat shows. - 50
Variety
It's precisely the lineup of familiar past work that makes I Spy pretty dull goods, invigorated mainly by the sharp interplay between Murphy and Wilson, both of whom shine best when they have a sidekick to work with. - 40
TV Guide Magazine
The real problem with the new film, however, is a certain lack of chemistry between the leads; Wilson is game, as always, but his part is seriously underwritten, and while Murphy raises trash talking to the level of a fine art, he seems to be operating in another movie altogether. - 38
Boston Globe
The sex bits are flat, the racial innuendo is flatter, and somewhere, Cosby is having a Pudding Pop and shaking his head in disbelief. - 38
USA Today
I cry for I Spy— or I would if this latest and laziest imaginable of all vintage-TV spinoffs were capable of engendering an emotional response of any kind. Comas are physical, not emotional. - 30
Salon
The movie is so thoroughly lousy. It's loud, brash and obvious, full of car chases and explosions and gunplay. - 30
Rolling Stone
Something lazy, slow, shallow, stupid, amateurish, unfunny, unsuspenseful, uninformed, unspeakably dull and witlessly written, directed and acted (the special effects suck, too). - 25
Miami Herald
Exhausts you with its derivative stupidity, leaving you weak and bored and weary of comedy that's not funny, action that's not exciting, dialogue that's not clever. It's not even an adequate rip-off of the TV show.
