True Lies Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Arnold and Bill Paxton Directed by James Cameron
The plot is simple. Harry Tasker is a spy, unbeknownst to his family and friends. His wife is unhappy with her "boring husband" and considering cheating on him. Harry discovers this and uses his spy resources to prevent it. While this is all going on, terrorists get their hands on a nuclear bomb, and Harry and his wife get tangled up in the plot. He must save the world and his marriage at the same time.
This movie is one of my favorite spy movies for several reasons. It doesn't take itself seriously. The actions is quite well done. They even managed to make Tom Arnold occasionally funny. Jamie Lee Curtis is hot, and her strip scene is worth the price of admission alone. There's also Tia Carrere, who plays a villain, but is also very watchable.
It's fun, light fare and one of Arnold's better movies.
Hopscotch, 1980 directed by Ronald Neame and staring Walter Matthau as Miles Kendig.
Kendig's boss at CIA tries to force him to retire. He balks at retirement and writes a tell-all book. CIA and KGB try to stop him. He leads them on a wild goose chase and finally fakes his own death by flying and destroying a biplane via remote control.
I like this movie because it is unusual for the spy movie genre. It doesn't revolve around gadgets or violence or sex as it does around duplicity and wit.
It starts out about a year after the events of the previous 007 film Casino Royal. M is attacked by an unknown organization and James goes off to find out info about it. It has all the usual action and fighting as all the other 007 films but this one i think contains much more story than ANY other 007 film which makes it my favorite.
And for a gadget i couldn't remember a good gadget used in this film.
Pierce Brosnan Essentially saves the world from an evil man who has been shot in the head by a bullet and now feels no pain. The villain in the story is in love with a rich girl who is truly after her own endeavors as well. Through great strife and scuffle, James Bond 007 stops the villains plans to kill many many people, including the life of Q, his boss.
I love this particular movie because it has an inordinate amount of gadgets, special effects and all around action throughout the movie. While Daniel Craig in the new bond is more "real." Pierce Brosnan has the gadgets that we all know and love. It's much like the Superman vs. Batman saga in that are superpowers better than gadgets...it's all in the eye of the beholder.
In the movie I wish I had James' car. He has countless amounts of technology in it that will probably never be instituted on any car in the world. But nevertheless, we can hope and dream that this will occur.
I could, like many others probably would say, say some 007 movie. However, if I really think about it, my favorite spy movie would have to be “The Hunt for Red October”. I am a younger, it is true. I saw this movie just a few years ago, and I was born a long time after the Cold War. You would think a movie about a Soviet Union submarine would not particularly interest me.
However it has so many great actors in it, like Sam Neill, Alec Baldwin, and James Earl Jones. Oh yes, I did forget one other name – Sean Connery! It may seem ridiculous that Connery, a heavy-accented Scottish man, played a Russian Captain but that doesn’t matter.
It was amazing acting and a great plot. I don’t want to give too much away, but a Soviet Captain is in charge of a new tactical submarine, the Red October. Soon he finds himself running from both the Soviets and the Americans. You’ll have to watch the movie to see how it all ends up. Needless to say it is a very thrilling movie.
I also liked the overall art that was behind the movie. It was genius when they started the movie having the actors on the Soviet side actually speaking Russian. You may think they will keep it up the whole movie, but it does not last long. The director used a great tactic to smoothly transition the Soviet actors into speaking English. By the end, you forget that the different actors would be speaking different languages until the two sides are united and the language barrier goes back up.
There are not really any spy gadgets unless you count a giant submarine, but I’m not sure I’d want that if I could get it – they terrify me.
As for why I loved the movie, does it need to be said? Two words: Sean Connery.
Long time case officer (Robert Redford) recruits Vietnam sniper (Brad Pitt) to become an agent working for the Central Intelligence Agency. Spy Game tells the story of the involvement of these two over a twenty-year period from the end of the Vietnam War to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Whats important is that it shows that being a spy is not about the gadgets which are ancillary to the business but the trade craft that goes with being a spy. This movie is great because it shows the tradecraft that is actually used by spies in the real world.
My favorite spy movie is Dr. No, starring Sean Connery as James Bond.
The movie originally came out in 1962 and was directed by Terence Young. It is the first film in the main James Bond series. The plot concerns a plot by Dr. No and SPECTRE to sabotage American missiles. The movie is set mostly in Jamaica. It opens with an MI6 operative getting killed by some of Dr. No's henchmen, which leads MI6 to send James Bond to investigate.
Bond eventually tracks the murder to Dr. No and goes to Dr. No's island (Crab Key) to see if he can find out what exactly Dr. No's plan is. Dr. No is a half-Chinese former gangster who now belongs to SPECTRE, a terrorist organization dedicated to trying to take over the world. Bond foils the plot, but not before his assistant is killed by some of Dr. No's goons.
This is the first Bond movie, which means that the gadgets are minimal to non-existent. Bond's boss issues him a Walther PPK in place of Bond's favored Baretta in an early scene, but there is no Q in Dr. No, only a character called the armourer who gives Bond the PPK.
The elements that have become familiar in all subsequent Bond movies are already present. There is a grotesque and ingenious villain threatening the peace of the world; casual sex and even more casual sadism abounds; there are the wisecracks, exotic locations, and that familiar theme music.
However, "Dr No" is a more down-to-earth affair than subsequent entries. The modest budget enforces a low-key, almost realistic tone. Bond is forced to rely on his wits to get the job done, rather then pulling out the gimmicks and gadgetry of later films. That is a main reason why I enjoy the film so much.
3 Days of the Condor stars Faye Dunaway and Robert Redford!
Robert Redford becomes a hunted man after he's not among the victims of a mass murder of his colleagues. I don't want any spy materials, I love this movie because it gives you the best of both worlds. Spy factor but also chilling.
Directed by Sydney Pollack in 1975. Featuring the World Trade Center, 1970s bass lines and serious style.
My favorite spy movie is "The Recruit." It stars Al Pacino, Colin Farrell, and Bridget Moynahan and is directed by Roger Donaldson.
The film centers around the CIA. Al Pacino is a CIA recruiter and does a fantastic job in his role. He recruits Colin Farrell who is a brilliant computer science college student. While at the recruitment camp, Farrell meets and falls in love with Moynahan. Pacino soon learns of this and uses the knowledge to exploit Farrell. The exploitation shows that a CIA agent must "never get caught" and has to restrain feelings for others.
The second part of the movie starts when Farrell and Moynahan both are now employed by the CIA. Moynahan holds a mid-level job while Farrell is stuck at a low-level one. Soon, the audience learns that both are being secretly consulted by Pacino to help extract confidential information from the CIA database. As Farrell and Moynahan's relationship deepens, they learn more about each other's involvement and discover "nothing is what it seems."
The movie has a constant building of suspense until its surprising and shocking twist ending.
One of the main spy gadgets used in the movie are microscopic recording devices. These are used by many of the characters to spy on others.
Pacino and Farrell are both very convincing in the movie and the altercation between the two create for a great thriller. The beautiful Moynahan is also very good in the movie and is very convincing in her seduction of Farrell.
"The Recruit" is a great spy thriller and I highly recommend it for anyone.
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