Genres:
Spy Film
Comedy
Theatrical Release: 11/01/2002(USA)
Release Date: 01/01/2001
Sound: DDS
Run Time:
Flags: Violence, Not For Children, Adult Language, Sexual Situations, Suitable for Teens
Distributor/Studio: Columbia TriStar
Yet another classic television series from the 1960s gets a big-screen update in this
action-comedy inspired by the
Bill Cosby/
Robert Culp vehicle
I Spy.
Alex Scott (
Owen Wilson) is a federal intelligence agent who has been assigned to find a particularly expensive and valuable weapon which has gone missing: a special stealth fighter jet which can not only hide from radar, but also turn invisible to the human eye.
Scott learns a rogue agent has sold the jet to
Gundars (
Malcolm McDowell), a powerful and unscrupulous underground arms dealer. After blowing his opportunity to catch
Gundars in the act,
Scott formulates a Plan B -- it seems
Gundars is a rabid boxing fan, so in order to get inside his organization,
Scott recruits
Kelly Robinson (
Eddie Murphy), a longtime middleweight champion whose ego nearly exceeds his talent in the ring.
Robinson is excited by the prospect of a life of espionage, but
Scott and
Robinson's personalities are like oil and water, and matters are hardly helped by the efforts of less-than-helpful fellow agents
Rachel (
Famke Janssen) and
Carlos (
Gary Cole). This adaptation of
I Spy was directed by a woman who starred in a memorable television series herself, former
Hill Street Blues regular
Betty Thomas, who has gone on to a successful career behind the camera. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
;)
