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Top Movies Eight Below Date Movie The Pink Panther Curious George Final Destination 3 Firewall Freedomland When a Stranger Calls Big Momma's House 2 Nanny McPhee New Releases Curious George Final Destination 3 Firewall The Pink Panther Date Movie Eight Below Freedomland Something New Failure to Launch When a Stranger Calls Top Celebs Reese Witherspoon Brad Pitt Paris Hilton Mariah Carey Lindsay Lohan Scarlett Johansson Phil Collins Britney Spears Angelina Jolie Jodie Marsh	Spy Game  Release Date - November 21, 2001  Distributor - Universal Pictures  Duration - 127 Mins  Type - Thriller( Rated R )  Writer : Michael Frost Beckner, David Arata  Producer : Douglas Wick, Marc Abraham  Director : Tony Scott  Starring : Robert Redford, Brad Pitt, Catherine McCormack, Stephen Dillane, Larry Bryggman  Synopsis . Complications arise on the last day of work for a veteran CIA agent (Robert Redford) when he must organize the rescue of a young protege (Brad Pitt) who has been captured by the Chinese while on a personal mission.  Critic Reviews Director Tony Scott's taut and stylish thriller that casts past and present pretty boys Redford and Brad Pitt as danger-loving undercover CIA agents. If every wrinkle tells a story, Redford's face is a library; and the 64-year-old screen actor references his personal archives to wistfully heroic effect in "Spy Games." Pitt is no slouch, either, and it would be unfair to regard him as merely an attractive foil for the weathered Redford. But make no mistake: This is Redford's movie. Call it a comeback, if you want. But watching the Hollywood legend so winningly wrap himself around an interesting role made me feel as if he'd never left his peak leading-man stature of more than a generation ago. Set in 1991, the intricately plotted adventure is told mostly in vivid flashbacks. On the day before his retirement, veteran CIA officer Nathan Muir (Redford) recalls how he developed Tom Bishop (Pitt) from a gung-ho sharpshooter in Vietnam to a brilliant secret agent in such dicey locales as Cold War Berlin and war-torn Beirut. The current problem is that Bishop has gone rogue and has been captured while attempting to make a daring rescue of someone from a Chinese prison. Muir's bosses want answers. But fearing an international incident, they're inclined to wash their hands of Bishop and let him be executed by the Chinese in less than 24 hours. This is unacceptable to Muir, who, for reasons of his own, decides to guilefully turn the tables on his superiors. Using every trick he's learned from 30 years in the spy game, the old-school operative secretly maneuvers from CIA headquarters to save his former pupil. The ambitious screenplay by Michael Frost Beckner and David Arata asks us to ponder the meaning of patriotism within the dirty tactics of lethal espionage. The movie also stretches credulity, especially in its rousing wrap-up, but such stirring escapism is tough to resist. Upping the entertainment ante is director Scott ("Enemy of the State," "Crimson Tide"), who is no newcomer to nail-biting drama. His timely cross-cuts between Muir's beat-the-clock efforts and Bishop being tortured by his Chinese captors fuels the suspense. And he does an imaginative job of keeping the camera moving -- at one point fancifully swirling around his two characters during a covert rooftoop meeting -- without ever agitating the eye. Redford and Pitt don't have that many scenes together, but they manage to convey a strangely distant affection between their characters. Is there honor among spies? If so, why? When you lie for a living, it's hard to trust anyone. Of course, Pitt and Redford are probably too good-looking to be spies, who, after all, are supposed to move about unnoticed. But if screen stars looked like average Joes, who would want to go to the movies?   For rating reasons : filmrating.com, mpaa.com                                    For Parents : Parentalguide.com
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