The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

A CIA agent teams up with a KGB operative to stop a terrorist plot in The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. Napoleon Solo (Henry Cavill) is an ex-con, who has become one of the CIA’s best agents. He is assigned to recruit Gaby Teller (Alicia Vikander) and get her help in locating her Nazi scientist father. For the mission, Solo…

Spy

Spy

Melissa McCarthy becomes a secret agent in Spy.  Susan Cooper (McCarthy) is a CIA analyst, whose job is to guide her partner Bradley Fine (Jude Law) on his missions.  Fine goes on a mission to recover to nuke from Rayna Boyanov (Rose Byrne).  However, when he goes down, Susan offers to go into the field in his…

The Expendables 3

The Expendables 3

The team of mercenaries recruit new blood to face an old foe in The Expendables 3.  After freeing imprisoned Expendables member Doc (Wesley Snipes), Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone) leads his team of Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), Gunnar Jensen (Dolph Lundgren), Toll Road (Randy Couture), and Hale Caesar (Terry Crews) to intercept an arms deal.  Barney…

Argo

Argo

I’ve been hearing a lot of good things about Ben Affleck‘s third directorial effort Argo, so I thought I should make it a point to see the film while it was still in theatres.  Argo is a true story about C.I.A. agent Tony Mendez (Affleck), who travels to Iran, undercover as a film producer, in…

RED

RED

The selling point of this film, based on a graphic novel, is the age of the lead actors, who all play retired spies forced back into action. Everything in the film is appropriately tongue-in-cheek, however the film does turn out to be a fairly decent action film in its own right.  While you would expect…

Knight and Day

Knight and Day

It has been a rough few years for Tom Cruise, however this film was truly a return to form.  The fact that the film is partially a comedy lets Cruise poke a little fun at his star personal.  As for Cameron Diaz, I thought she was okay enough and she had an alright chemistry with…

The A-Team

The A-Team

I was pretty much a toddler when the original television series was popular, however I still remember watching it.  As you can guess, I don’t really remember anything about the show other than Mr T. As such, I can’t really compare the new film version to the show.  However, I can say that this was…