Less raunchy than the other Nielsen films, the material isn't enough to sustain its 80 minutes but it has its moments.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 25, 2022

This spy parody from 1996 feels very much of its time.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 1, 2021

[A] haphazardly executed send-up.

| Jun 14, 2013

The result is 80 brief minutes of movie skits assembled in an order that sort of resembles a plot.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 14, 2013

The movie will be of interest only to Nielsen's most devoted fans and to those who wonder why Nicollette Sheridan never made more movies, or more swimsuit calendars.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 14, 2013

The jokes come in sporadic volleys rather than the steady machine-gun pace of The Naked Gun and Airplane!, and, with a few exceptions, they are less truly aimed.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 14, 2013

The blockbuster action thriller genre is ripe for sending up, but this lazy effort has to go down as a miss despite the presence of spoofmeister Leslie Nielsen.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 4, 2013

Sporadically funny, but never more than a sting of crude gags.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 4, 2013

Yet another Leslie Nielson movie parody, targeted this time at James Bond pictures and their many spinoffs.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 4, 2013

As funny as Nielsen can be, like all comic actors he still needs the quick-thinking jokes and zingy one-liners to be genuinely funny.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 4, 2013

Spy Hard just comes off as a long commercial. And yes, that means most of the best moments you've seen in the movie's trailer.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 4, 2013

More of a cinematic joke book than a real movie, Spy Hard hits you with gags faster than Henny Youngman on speed. Even when individual bits misfire, the unrelenting barrage of silliness can break down your resistance.

| Jun 4, 2013

Spy Hard is a loose send-up of the Bond series and other overly expensive action flicks, but after Hot Shots! Part Deux and National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 who needs another action parody?

| Original Score: C- | Sep 7, 2011

Never mind that the smutty, high-tech 007 capers already wink at the conventions of the bikini-clad, gizmo-strewn genre. If the martini is shaken, not stirred, why beat it to death with a swizzle stick?

| Jul 6, 2010

Nielsen's schtick is getting pretty threadbare by now -- his movies used to wring laughs from assaults on his silver-haired dignity, but after years of screen buffoonery, he has no dignity left to assault.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 12, 2009

The picture that will test the durability of Leslie Nielsen's lowbrow franchise, Spy Hard sticks closely to the Naked Gun formula. Not only is the formula itself wearing thin, but the gags themselves feel recycled.

| Mar 26, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | May 7, 2007

Like Hot Shots! there's the same mistaken belief that simply tagging other films will be intrinsically funny...

| Jun 24, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 30, 2005