Spy Game

UPC: 025195053662

Studio: Universal Studios

MPAA Rating: R   Contains:[Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations]

Summary: 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 prot?g? 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. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi

Category: Spy Film

Features: Deleted and Alternate Scenes with Director's Commentary - Including an alternate ending!

Clandestine Ops: A unique viewing experience that puts you in control. Go behind the scenes and gain access to classified information while watching the film

Requirements for CIA Acceptance - Do you have what it takes to become an operative?

Script-To-Storyboard Process

Feature Commentaries with Director Tony Scott, and with Producers Marc Abraham and Douglas Wick

Spy Game

Format: Blu-ray

Release Date: 05/26/2009

Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Cinemascope

Audio: DD2 Dolby Digital Stereo, DHMA null, DTS Digital Theater Systems

Runtime: 120 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,Spanish,French

Subtitles: English,Spanish,French

Michael Hastings

Ignoring its somewhat dubious politics, Tony Scott's espionage thriller remains a taut and engrossing -- if glossily shallow -- take on international intrigue, shoved along at a steady clip by brisk editing and an insistent score. This is the kind of material a director like Alan J. Pakula would have thrived on in the '70s; Michael Frost Beckner and David Arata's script is rife with double- and triple-crosses, sex, assassinations, elaborate flashbacks, daring rescues, and beat-the-clock political maneuvering. In the hands of Pakula or a similarly accomplished director, Spy Game would have been truly epic instead of endlessly watchable, but, as it is, the movie offers more than enough coherent drama for audiences to chew over. Though Scott's excessive stylistic flourishes are mostly distracting, he's to be commended for delineating a head-spinning amount of information in a relatively compact, 127-minute running time. Granted, some characters fall by the wayside -- the luminous Charlotte Rampling has a nothing part -- and some plot details remain unclear, but through it all, Robert Redford anchors the film with a relaxed cool he hasn't exhibited in years. It's a part tailor-made for him, and his mere presence lends the film a gravity it wouldn't have had otherwise. Scott seems mostly uninterested in his characters' emotional transformations, but the veteran leading man more than makes up for it in his repartee with a similarly well-cast Brad Pitt. So while it's tantalizing to think of the movie Spy Game could have been, the one that's onscreen proves to be more than enough. ~ Michael Hastings, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Marc Abraham  Producer 
Armyan Bernstein  Executive Producer 
Tony Scott  Director 
Iain Smith  Executive Producer 
Doug Wick  Producer 
James W. Skotchdopole  Executive Producer 
Michael Frost Beckner  Screenwriter 
Harry Gregson-Williams  Composer (Music Score) 
Thomas A. Bliss  Executive Producer 
David Arata  Screenwriter 
Robert Redford  Actor 
Brad Pitt  Actor 
Catherine McCormack  Actor 
Stephen Dillane  Actor 
Larry Bryggman  Actor 
Michael Paul Chan  Actor 
Marianne Jean-Baptiste  Actor 
Ken Leung  Actor 
David Hemmings  Actor 
Matthew Marsh  Actor 
Todd Boyce  Actor 
Amidou  Actor 
Charlotte Rampling  Actor 

Country: USA