| | | It's not how you play the game. It's how the game plays you.
Features: DVD, Widescreen, Dolby Digital (5.1) Surround Sound, Spanish, Subtitled
When a top-secret, unauthorized mission goes bad, CIA agent Tom Bishop (Brad Pitt) is captured--and sentenced to die. With just 24 hours to get him out alive, Bishop's former boss Nathan Muir (Robert Redford) must battle enemies abroad and the system inside the CIA to save his friend. Now the clock is ticking and the race is on...as the deadliest game of all explodes into a spectacular, adrenaline-fueled, edge of the seat thrill ride that sizzles with suspense.
"...makes the sport and hard work of espionage seem chillingly real." Washington Post
"Gripping!" Newsweek
"Heart Pounding!
" Joel Siegel, Good Morning America
"A satisfying and entertaining spy movie." Eric D. Snider, Daily Herald
"Outstanding!" Chicago Sun-Times
"Heart-pounding!" Joel Siegel, Good Morning Amewrica
Editor's Note
Robert Redford stars as veteran CIA agent Nathan Muir in this thriller from Tony Scott (TOP GUN, ENEMY OF THE STATE). Set in 1991, Muir expects his last day before retirement to be an easy one. Instead, he finds that his protégé, Tom Bishop (Brad Pitt), is being held on espionage charges in a Chinese prison will be executed in 24 hours. A seasoned agent, Muir has played spy games for a long time and quickly realizes that the CIA may not be acting in Bishop's best interest. Even as an agency committee is grilling Muir, he is secretly working to secure his former charge's freedom. Action-packed flashbacks establish the relationship between the two men: their first meeting during the Vietnam War, Muir's recruitment of Bishop following the war, Bishop's training and early missions in Berlin, and an important operation in Beirut. Similarly, the flashbacks trace the evolution of Bishop from an eager, brand-new agent in 1975 to a disillusioned veteran in the mid-1980s who is at odds with his mentor, Muir. This last layer of conflict adds extra suspense to SPY GAME, as Muir must decide whether to help his old friend or take the easy way out.
| Features | Audio: English DTS 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1, French Dolby Digital 5.1 | | Requirements for CIA Acceptance: Learn what it takes to become a CIA operative. | | An alternate ending | | Subtitles: Spanish | | Widescreen | | Over 10 Electrifying Hours of High Impact Entertainment! | | Clandestine Ops - Enhanced Viewing: Observe and examine the secrets of the filmmaking process as you are taken behind the scenes and given exclusive information on the making of Spy Game | | Deleted Scenes with Director Commentary | | Script to Storyboard: A guided visual tour with Director Tony | | "The Making Of Spy Game" Featurette |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Universal |
| Release Date: 5/23/2006 |
| Running Time: 127 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2001 | | Catalog ID: 21552 | | UPC: 00025192155222 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 2.35:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | Entertainment Weekly
"...The film is brimming with plots, counterplot, dossiers, and sinister corrupt priorities....A stylishly moody and jacked-up cloak-and-dagger adventure..." 11/30/2001 p.55-6New York Times
"...Mr. Scott has an eye for sharp images and cool stuff....SPY GAME is seamlessly and crisply edited..." 11/21/2001 p.E1 Variety
"...[SPY GAME] produces Robert Redford's most engaging performance in years..." 11/19/2001 p.39-44 Sight and Sound
"...Viewers may be justifiably dazzled by the film's grand tour of exotic locations....Surely for most filmgoers the appeal of SPY GAME will lie in the Redford-Pitt pairing. Both look smashing..." 02/01/2002 p.61-2 Chicago Sun-Times
"...[A] tautly written, beautifully executed thriller....SPY GAME hinges on the perfect symmetry of Redford and Pitt....It's a thrill to watch here..." 11/21/2001 p.46 San Francisco Examiner 9 of 10
The action begins early...in Tony Scott's terrifically entertaining Spy Game, and the rest of the movie maintains the brisk pace in what feels like an unbroken, brilliantly sustained rush of turbo-charged excitement... Redford gives his most appealing and multifaceted performance in ages... - Joe Leydon
Washington Post 8 of 10
...a taut, timely and intelligent thriller with cloak-and-swaggering performances from Robert Redford and Brad Pitt.. The movie is sleek and shiny as a new bullet, reflecting [the directors] patented surplus of style, but in this case that only enhances a stirring drama about the moral ambiguities native to intelligence-gathering. - Rita Kempley
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