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Spy Game (2001)

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Synopsis

Looking for all the world like father and son, cinema's two golden "boys" Robert Redford and Brad Pitt team up for this daftly implausible but diverting spy yarn from Enemy of the State director Tony Scott. Redford's the old pro who's about to retire from the CIA; Pitt's the boy-wonder protégé banged up in a Chinese hellhole after failing to free old flame Catherine McCormack from custody. The 24 hours prior to Pitt's execution see Redford reminiscing about the partnership, before running rings round his oblivious CIA superiors with little more than a glue stick, a marker pen and some sticky-backed plastic in an attempt to save his friend's life. It's like spy-gaming, Blue Peter-style. Flashy, if a little over-elaborate, in its direction, Spy Game doesn't quite deliver on the promise of its superstar pairing, but Redford, as always, is a delight to watch.