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	Top Box Office Movies - Spy Game
		In watching ‘Spy Game’, the dilemma which arose, was that of either enjoying the film for what it was, or critiquing the film for what it wanted to be.
		In this film, his most ambitious film to date, he weaves an intricate, complex and seamless mix between the present and the past.
		The film’s concept is quite ingenious, yet the manner in which it is presented may to some be quite irreverent.
	www.theworldjournal.com /special/movies/2001/spygame.htm (878 words)

	Spy film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Many novels in the spy fiction genre have been adapted as films, although in many cases (such as James Bond) the overall tone is changed.
		The peak of popularity of the spy film is often considered to be the 1960s when Cold War fears meshed with a desire by audiences to see exciting and suspenseful films.
		Spy films also enjoyed something of a revival in the late 1990s, although these were often action films with espionage elements, or comedies like Austin Powers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spy_film (592 words)

	Spy Kids - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Spy Kids movies are about the children of a married spy couple who become involved in their parents' espionage.
		Director Robert Rodriguez says the first film was the "Willy Wonka and James Bond mix" and the second was the "Mysterious Island and James Bond mix"; by this pattern the third film could be described as the "Tron and James Bond mix".
		The third film was also used as a test for a special Texas Instruments digital projector which is supposed to be able to project polorized 3D, a process that does not require the red-blue lenses.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spy_Kids (1326 words)

	Wesley Britton, The Indispensables: The Best 25 Spy Films of All Time (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The film can be seen as suggesting a promise of healthy revolution in the Soviet Union, the peaceful co-existence between East and West, and a shift in Hollywood as a Russian is the dominant hero in the film.
		Spies in the Ryan mold were no longer loners out for sexual conquest but were now "Everymen" with responsibilities grounding their purposes and adventures.
		Filmed in seven countries, including Hungary, Italy, and France, the attention to detail gave the film's series of settings a level of realism unneeded in other blockbusters where explosions and allegedly witty dialogue are the point.
	wbritton53.home.att.net /bestmovies.htm (5565 words)

	Optimus Prime Films \| Reviews \| Spy Kids
		The film opens simple enough with a mother telling her daughter a bed-time story about the two greatest secret agents to ever live.
		You know the typical James Bond films, diabolical madman, except this time his genius is focused more on his children's TV show than taking over the world.
		And unlike his last film, The Faculty, all of his trademark stuff is here, the outlandish action scenes, the cool camera work, quick zooms, slow-motion, perfectly edited together by Rodriguez himself, all set to some funky guitar riffs.
	optimusfilms.20m.com /reviews/spykids (485 words)

	The Films of Alfred Hitchcock (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Spy stories were common in prose fiction, especially those of British writers.
		In that film, Anne Baxter has dinner for two with an imaginary companion: in her case, it is to celebrate her connection with her boyfriend who is off fighting in Korea.
		The opening sequence of the film is full of noir features: a crime involving money and financial corruption, the prominence of police, especially uniformed police, the mixture of night and rain on the drive, a look at the problems and dark side of middle class life.
	members.aol.com /MG4273/hitch.htm (10107 words)

	Wesley A. Britton. The Movie Spy's Bookshelf: A Selective Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Film studies seem to be a bottomless pit from biographies, autobiographies, genre studies, to books on Hitchcock.
		Contains one chapter on spy films from the decade which is useful but not comprehensive.
		Extremely useful overview of films during the years indicated that dealt with Russian characters, themes, and duels with Western governments and spy agencies.
	home.att.net /~wbritton53/filmbookshelf.htm (1431 words)

	Exciting Spy Films
		Joan Crawford and Fred MacMurray are asked to do a spy mission during their honeymoon in Europe on the eve of World War II.
		A cold-hearted German spy becomes interested in a love-starved woman on a deserted British island.
		British spies are sent to Switzerland to hunt enemy agents.
	www.intelligentsianetwork.com /spy.htm (270 words)

	Spy Game (2001) - Ninth Symphony Films Review
		As a spy adventure film, intrigue and excitement seem to be a necessity and this film has both essentials in spades.
		For much of the film, CIA veteran "Nathan Muir," played by Robert Redford, speaks to a group of CIA investigators about his teaching of "Tom Bishop," Brad Pitt’s character, a man who recently led an unauthorized raid into an Asian prison and his now scheduled to be executed for being a spy.
		The action is intense from the first scene, much to the film’s benefit, because the running time of two hours plus might have seemed too long if the energy and intensity of the film was ever less than it was.
	regencylady.tripod.com /site/filmreviews/spygame.html (855 words)

	Spy Kids (2001) - Ninth Symphony Films Review
		The film is a very well made children's adventure that combines some unique elements and some tried and true strategies that create a film that's appealing on all fronts.
		Films can almost become bland without colorful scenery to look at and given that children's films often contain a limited plot.
		Most of the time, films that are appealing to kids star a purple dinosaur and getting children to sit still in a movie that mom and dad can tolerate is next to impossible.
	regencylady.tripod.com /site/filmreviews/spykids.html (781 words)

	Spy Game
		The structure of "Spy Game," though based in the "present" of 1991 and Nathan's last 24 hours as a CIA spook, is primarily made up with a series of flashbacks of the meetings between him and Tom.
		This is an action, not an actors' film, but this doesn't stop the principles from giving a human face to their characters.
		Cinematographer Dan Mindel does a fine job capturing the ever-changing scenes as the action moves from the war-room atmosphere of CIA headquarters to the greenish tinting of the Vietnam locale, the rooftops and dark streets of Berlin (with Budapest standing in for the German capital) and war-torn Beirut (utilizing Casablanca for the Lebanese city).
	www.reelingreviews.com /spygame.htm (1427 words)

	Movie-List - Reviews - Spy Kids 2: The Island Of Lost Dreams
		The Spy Kids sequel uses a lot of the lingo and history from the first film as it expands on the world of the Cortez family.
		There are also references to the original film that even the most alert audience member may miss if they haven't seen the first film recently.
		I liked the film but "Spy Kids 2" falls into the same chasms as most sequels as it tries to top the original by being bigger.
	www.movie-list.com /reviews/spykids2.shtml (527 words)

	FilmStew.com • Spy Kids Surprise
		Dimension Films pulled off a suprise victory this weekend as their latest installment of the Spy Kids franchise, Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over, overtook all other new wide releases this weekend to capture the top spot at the box office.
		The numbers generated from the first two openings of the Spy Kids films seemed to indicate that interest was slipping.
		Should the estimates for the weekend hold true, it would be the first time in history that five films have cracked the $20 million mark; a stat that helps push the national box office for the week of July 24th past the comparable frame from last year by 25%.
	www.filmstew.com /Content/Article.asp?ContentID=6378 (925 words)

	Modamag.com \| Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (Movie Review)
		“Spy Kids” was a dream come true: an inventive family film that never talked down to its audience, and wasn’t weighed down by principles.
		“Spy Kids 2” couldn’t match the original’s tone nor restraint, with Rodriguez falling far too much in love with the special effects he found so easy to control in the first film.
		Since she’s been all but written out of the entire film (Vega’s consolation prize seems to be an adequate stab singing the film‘s theme song, run during the end credits), Sabara is all alone, without his partner in crime, and the film is diminished by it.
	www.modamag.com /spykids3d.htm (926 words)

	PlayStation.com: Features (Site not responding. Last check: )
		My understanding of the plot in Bond films is as follows: investigate (fly around the world); discover enemy base; infiltrate; somehow get captured; have a meal with the boss; duel with boss; ally force arrives; base crumbles; escape with Bond girl; have fun with Bond girl; rival arrives; duel.
		In the 60s and 70s, spy films and TV series were the thing.
		Peter Hunt, the editor of the earlier films directed a later Bond film and John Glen (who was a second director) became the director for other Bond films.
	uk.playstation.com /features/featureStory.jhtml;jsessionid=ES3QVYD52JWIICQSBLUR2RQ?storyId=103745_en_GB_FEAT&linktype=FSOF (2716 words)

	Tail Slate - Film Review - Spy Game
		It portrays the business of spy work in a realistic way: It is a deceptive, dangerous job that is neither good, nor bad, but simply what is in the best interests of the country.
		Spy Game shows you what is really means to be an agent in service to your country — and it ain’t that glamorous.
		If the box office is any indication, this film apparently didn’t pull in the numbers they probably expected, however, that has nothing to do with the quality.
	www.tailslate.net /reviews/index.asp?ID=17&lst=n&dpt=film (808 words)

	Spy Films - Spy On Spy
		Spy Films was launched in 1994 by co-founder Carlo Trulli.
		The concept worked and soon SPY was a leader in launching new talent into the industry, while attracting attention from established directors for representation.
		Since then SPY has gone global, aligning itself internationally in order to better expose the home grown Canadian talent to new markets and bring excellent international talent to it's clients in Canada.
	www.spyfilms.com /spy.html (95 words)

	This year's slate of Spy Films - The CHUD.COM Message Boards
		Spy Kids 2 is more fantasy to me, and to be honest (and God i despise saying this since I live in Austin and am a huge Rodriguez fan), I haven't seen it yet.
		I have to say my favorite spy movies of the last few years are Ronin and Spy Game.
		I think some of the best spy stuff is on television right now with Alias and 24.
	www.chud.com /forums/showthread.php?t=8710 (964 words)

	Essay on By Using the spy genre, the appeals have been compared between spy films seeing what has changed.
		APPEAL OF THE SPY GENRE From the first Bond film produced to the spy cinema of today, the codes and conventions have changed from the secretive spying dramas to explosive all action flicks more related to the spy genre.
		What's a spy film without exotic locations, people want to be able to escape from everyday life in a spy film, because if it's just focused on a specific location where many people live it becomes not as interesting.
		The deconstruction of society's rules is what holds a spy film together without it, it would be a different genre.
	www.dedicatedwriters.com /paper/By_Using_the_spy_genre_the_ap-167285.html (252 words)

	The Spy Who Loved Me (film) - Double-Oh-Wiki
		This is the second film in the history of the Bond series (as of 2004) in which M refers to Bond by his first name, rather than simply 007 or Bond (the first time was at his wedding in On Her Majesty's Secret Service).
		Although this isn't the first Bond film to relocate M's office to an exotic location as a branch office (You Only Live Twice was the first), it is the first to have Q-Branch likewise relocated with a full array of weapons and testing personnel catering to the particular region of the world.
		Since the screenplay for the film had nothing to do with Fleming's original novel, Glidrose Publications, for the first time, authorised that a novelisation be written based upon the script.
	jamesbond.wikia.com /wiki/The_Spy_Who_Loved_Me_(film) (1679 words)

	Film Quips \| SPY KIDS
		Spy Kids, written and directed by up-and-coming filmmaker Robert Rodriguez (El Mariachi, The Faculty), is full of action and beautifully eye-catching effects, but it's also refreshingly well-written and intelligent for a film aimed at the pre-teen market.
		But their lackluster deliveries do not seriously hamper the film's overall effect, as there is enough heft to Rodriguez's script, not to mention cool gadgetry and colorful scenery, to keep the interest level high.
		There are some rather dark aspects to the story, and younger children might be nonplussed by its occasionally nightmarish imagery, but as the final reel winds down we get the traditional message about those pure of heart succeeding in the end, including former villains who finally see the light.
	www.filmquipsonline.com /spykids.html (439 words)

	Spy Game (2001)
		Tony Scott's spy film is a delicious game of cat and mouse, as well as a nice commentary on the individual vs. big government.
		He does a great job with the character of a "field operative" (spy) and an even better job of outlining a relationship between himself and Muir which borders on father-son.
		Spy Game is as good as the trailers look, and it's going to look good the second time you see it.
	www.filmmonthly.com /Video/Articles/SpyGame/SpyGame.html (543 words)

	Spy Kids Movie Review by Anthony Leong from MediaCircus.net
		The spy genre has grown rather tiresome in recent years, with each entry into the James Bond film series (such as "The World is Not Enough") sinking the venerable franchise further into banality.
		And despite Rodriguez's association with blood-and-guts action films such as "Desperado" and "From Dusk Till Dawn", he successfully manages to both invigorate the ailing genre with some new ideas, as well as allows this critic to use the words 'kick-ass' and 'family film' in the same sentence and mean it.
		The only problem is that the robots, dubbed 'spy kids', are not yet able to pass as real children due to a lack of brainpower-- a problem for which Gregorio holds the key to a solution.
	www.mediacircus.net /spykids.html (834 words)

	Movie-List - Reviews - Spy Game
		In his new film “Spy Game”, Redford plays Nathan Muir, a CIA operative who is on the brink of retirement and has to save his protégé, Tom Bishop (Brad Pitt), from deep within a Chinese prison.
		“Spy Game” is Redford’s third spy thriller but I think he has really brought some of those previous performances to his character in “Spy Game”.
		I liked how the film allows for a thinking man’s spy to be at the forefront of the mission.
	www.movie-list.com /reviews/spygame.shtml (410 words)

	The Popkorn Junkie :: Spy Game
		How many times must we sit through another spy film where the old spy has to rescue the young spy from the clutches of the evil country at the time (which, nowadays, happens to be China).
		A few parts of the film were difficult to accept such as trying to imagine Pitt and Redford, the pretty boys of two generations of modern film, trying to be tough and ruthless.
		Another problem is the fact that the film spans 4 decades and no one ages at all – but hey, it’s a movie, I can use my imagination, and I’d rather have the same actors play the parts than to have younger look-a-likes lip sync the dialog.
	www.popkornjunkie.com /reviews/spygame.html (872 words)

	FILM 'SOLVES' SPY SLAY: PUTIN DID IT - New York Post
		In the two-hour film, "Rebellion: The Litvinenko Case," Russian President Vladimir Putin is openly accused of masterminding the murder.
		Marina and the film's director, Andrei Nekrasov, said yesterday that they feared for their own lives once the film is viewed by Russia's ruling elite.
		The film was in the works for years and was intended to investigate corruption and criminality from Putin's office downward.
	www.nypost.com /seven/05272007/news/worldnews/film_solves_spy__slay__putin_did_it_worldnews_garth_pearce_________post_correspondent.htm (653 words)

	Spy Kids
		At the beginning of the film, Ingrid tells her children a fantastical story of two spies who fell in love.
		Spy Kids is not just a kids' fantasy, it's an adults' tongue-in-cheek look at the absurdity of the James Bond-style of action-adventure.
		Bond films are amoral and anti-family: the individual comes above all, success (not means) is paramount, and relationships are a form of deception without emotional fulfilment.
	www.meridianmagazine.com /videos/011109spykids.html (1048 words)

	Amazon.ca: Customer Reviews: The Spy Who Loved Me (Widescreen)
		This is the 10th film in the long-running "James Bond" series and the third to star Roger Moore as Bond.
		spy who loved me and for your eyes only are the best of the moores, with this one having the slight edge.it has the necessary balance to make it a mmeorable entry.
		As with all of the other films in the series, a full color, collectible making-of booklet is also included with more facts and trivia.
	www.amazon.ca /Spy-Who-Loved-Me-Widescreen/dp/customer-reviews/B00004RG66 (2921 words)

	Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
		The entire film is an exercise in recapturing a feeling of wonder and danger in the moviegoing experience, providing kids with something a little meatier than the plaintive milquetoast complaint of Stuart Little 2, the paternalistic racism of Spirit, and the astonishingly grating experience of The Master of Disguise.
		Elevated since the first film from interlopers to ranked agents (Class 2 means you can boss around The President!), Juni and Carmen embark to the Island of Lost Dreams in pursuit of a gizmo that has the potential to shut down the world's electronic devices.
		Where the film fails is not its energy or subtext, but in that certain lack of freshness endemic to sequels.
	filmfreakcentral.net /screenreviews/spykids2.htm (563 words)

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