Spy Game
Universal Pictures | Release Date: November 21, 2001 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
63
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 29 Critic Reviews
Positive:
20
Mixed:
8
Negative:
1
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60
New Times (L.A.)Gregory Weinkauf
A mess, but it's a rousing mess, with ample humor and action to satisfy the discerning dullard within. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
What Spy Game turns out to be is the old reliable family car spruced up around the edges in an attempt to convince a new generation of buyers that it's a hot number. Read full review
60
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
To make silk purses from turgid passages, Mr. Scott does what he always does, gooses them up with every trick in the big-budget book.
50
Film ThreatMichael Dequina
Less Bond than simply boring, a tedious and overdirected race-against-time drama with a few espionage elements thrown in. Read full review
50
New York PostLou Lumenick
Don't you hate movies where one character is so much smarter than everyone else? That's only one problem with Spy Game, a glossy, suffocatingly predictable star vehicle for Robert Redford and Brad Pitt. Read full review
50
The New York TimesDana Stevens
The problem lies in the calculating pretentiousness of using human misery to make shallow entertainment seem serious. It's worth comparing Spy Game with "The Tailor of Panama," John Boorman's far superior exercise in post-cold-war spycraft. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineFrank Lovece
Extremely well-shot espionage thriller that might have worked as an old-fashioned guy's-guy movie if the guys involved had any real, human personality and the espionage were actually thrilling. Read full review
40
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Reasonably entertaining spy-versus-spy shenanigans were for me partially undercut by the hypocritical pretense that the CIA and its various forms of mischief were somehow being ridiculed. Read full review
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