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29 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Washington PostMichael O'SullivanWashington PostMichael O'SullivanWith its cast of back-stabbing functionaries and desk jockeys, Spy Game makes the sport and hard work of espionage seem chillingly real.
- 80Village VoiceMark HolcombVillage VoiceMark HolcombHappily, beneath the film's nostalgic veneer and tooth-rattling visual and aural effects lies a mature ambiguity that's unusual for a holiday blockbuster -- and all but unheard of in a Tony Scott movie.
- 75New York Daily NewsJami BernardNew York Daily NewsJami BernardThe script provides an excellent payoff, although action fans may not agree, because that payoff is the equivalent of a Cheshire cat's grin.
- 75Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThe film is brimming with plots, counterplots, dossiers, and sinister corrupt priorities, all held together by the telephoto obsidian gloss of Scott's look-ma-no-pauses style.
- 75Miami HeraldRene RodriguezMiami HeraldRene RodriguezThe movie asks tough, unflinching questions about America's responsibility to maintain world peace -- and the price we are willing to pay in order to accomplish that. Timely stuff, indeed.
- 70SalonCharles TaylorSalonCharles TaylorManages to be entertaining and reasonably exciting. Scott's style may be slick and tricky but, if this and his last film, "Enemy of the State," are any indication, he's lost the glossy sadism that characterized his previous work.
- 67Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldSeattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldIt's well-plotted, acted with a charismatic flair and right on the zeitgeist.
- 63Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaPhiladelphia InquirerSteven ReaFans of swooping helicopter shots, alleys filled with backlit geysers of steam, and jump-cut editing that makes MTV look like Ingmar Bergman will relish the intercontinental intrigue and huggermugger that is Spy Game.
- 50Film ThreatMichael DequinaFilm ThreatMichael DequinaLess Bond than simply boring, a tedious and overdirected race-against-time drama with a few espionage elements thrown in.