It has a few moments of intrigue with the presence of Robert Redford and Brad Pitt, but many times I am assailed by the feeling that their espionage game never escapes the designated routines and predictable acts of action. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jun 25, 2023

The movie is essentially a long meeting, allowing Redford to hold forth, grin cynically at what’s become of his agency, and coast on his matinee-idol charisma.

| Original Score: D | Sep 17, 2022

Generally running on classic rock and smoke, it's all craft and no conviction, all costume and no design. Its anonymized approach has left it appropriately unremembered - a vague whisper on the lips of someone digging through a DVD clearance bin.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 8, 2021

Enjoy it for what it is, a fleet, handsome fantasy of globe-hopping blond demigods.

| Mar 7, 2018

Capably anchored by [Robert] Redford giving the spunkiest, most alive performance he gave in a decade in either direction.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 9, 2013

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Jan 18, 2013

A smart thriller for grown-ups.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 28, 2010

Two generations of Hollywood 'golden boys' team up in Tony Scott's Spy Game, a neatly plotted espionage thriller. [Blu-ray]

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 15, 2009

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 27, 2007

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 30, 2005

... afterwards I realized that I had been maneuvered into rooting for a dangerously reckless and presumptuous man.

| Original Score: C+ | Dec 6, 2004

...the movie has been suffused with an often egregiously complicated narrative that perpetuates the arms-length atmosphere...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 1, 2003

This is Brad Pitt, for crying out loud! Where can you send him undercover? In the CIA's Beverly Hills bureau?

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 2, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 20, 2003

Redford is great - treat the rest on a don't-need-to-know basis.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 16, 2003

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 8, 2003

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 8, 2002

It just isn't thrilling enough -- an impression compounded by Scott's tiresomely overenthusiastic and gimmicky camerawork.

| Nov 10, 2002