Spy Game

2001 Action/Adventure

Brad Pitt is reunited as a co-star with his A River Runs Through It (1992) director Robert Redford for this espionage thriller from Tony Scott. On the verge of retirement from the Central Intelligence Agency, veteran spy Nathan Muir (Redford) learns that his one-time protégé Tom Bishop (Pitt) has gone rogue and been taken prisoner after attempting to smuggle a prisoner out of China. Although Muir and Bishop had once been close friends, sharing adventures from Vietnam to Berlin, bad blood and resentment developed between them, and the two men haven't seen each other in years. As his memories of their friendship come flooding back, Muir sets about arranging the rescue of his old friend from a Communist jail. Spy Game (2001) co-stars Catherine McCormack as a human rights activist and Bishop's love interest.

Director: Tony Scott

Starring: Robert Redford, Brad Pitt, Catherine McCormack, Stephen Dillane, Larry Bryggman

 30 Reviews  2 Awards

Reviews

  • 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.

    Owen Gleiberman - Entertainment Weekly

    27 April 2013

  • Enormously satisfying and fun to watch.

    Edward Guthmann - The San Francisco Chronicle

    27 April 2013

  • More than a quarter-century ago, Redford played a young CIA employee in "Three Days of the Condor." Someday, it will make a great living-room double bill with Spy Game -- the actor then and now.

    Mike Clark - USA Today

    27 April 2013

  • There's something elegiac in Redford's spy who knows he's a dinosaur but still has a few moves left.

    Jay Carr - The Boston Globe

    27 April 2013

  • If you like Redford, Spy Game will be a real treat: a fast electric thriller full of the old Sundance charm and pizzazz.

    Mark Caro - The Chicago Tribune

    27 April 2013

Awards

  • Best Sound Editing - Dialogue & ADR, Domestic Feature Film

    Motion Picture Sound Editors (2002)

     

  • Best Original Score

    Satellite Awards (2002)

     

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