Film

Spy Game 2001

Directed by Tony Scott

  • Action, Crime, Thriller
  • 126 min
  • R

It's not how you play the game. It's how the game plays you.

On the day of his retirement, a veteran CIA agent learns that his former protégé has been arrested in China, is sentenced to die the next morning in Beijing, and that the CIA is considering letting that happen to avoid an international scandal.

ActionCrimeThrillervietnam warpalestinian-israeli conflictcentral intelligence agency (cia)chinaespionagespycold warflashbackterrorism

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Grave, earnest, epic and classical in form.

  • gravecomic
  • earnestironic
  • intimateepic
  • classical in formformally daring
  • character-ledplot-driven

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