Spy Game (2001) - Official Trailer - Brad Pitt Movie HD
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The story recounts Nathan (Robert Redford) and Tom's (Brad Pitt) history of working together as spooks for the CIA. Now Tom has tried to pull off a stunt to rescue his girlfriend and gotten himself in a terrible jam. The big-shots at the CIA aren't willing to try and save him because reasons, so Nathan uses his retirement fund to engineer an op to rescue him. It's probably going to land Nathan in hot water, but he's a spook, he'll elude his pursuers. And Tom and his girlfriend will owe him.
A thriller than seems more real than fiction
which is pretty accurate.
Can't tell who wrote it. It's a website with one review of this one movie. It uses the acronym MACV-SOG without defining it, so I asked Google:
MACV-SOG (Military Assistance Command, Vietnam – Studies and Observations Group)
Espionage is a dirty business. Assets in the spy trade are people who can get the information about the enemy that the agents want. However, to spooks, assets aren't people, they are just objects to use to get what you want and as soon as they are no longer useful or you have gotten what you want, they get dropped. If they fall into a burning pile of shit, well too bad. Good agents are not going to waste any tears for them. No wonder the CIA is so popular.
Cast I recognized:
- Robert Redford as Nathan Muir
- Brad Pitt as Tom Bishop
- Catherine McCormack as Elizabeth Hadley
- Michael Paul Chan is familiar to us for his role as Lieutenant Michael Tao in The Closer
- Marianne Jean-Baptiste is familiar to us because we've seen her is like a zillion different shows.
Volga Hydrofoil 70
Wm Schimmel
Somewhere around the 1:10:00 mark, the Sheik catches a ride from Cyprus to Beirut, a distance of maybe 120 miles, in speedboat equipped with hydrofoils. Never seen the like. Google thinks it might be a Volga, a Soviet boat.
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