Spy Game (2001)

Director: Tony Scott

Cast: Robert Redford as Nathan D. Muir, Brad Pitt as Tom Bishop, Catherine McCormack as Elizabeth Hadley, Stephen Dillane as Charles Harker, Larry Bryggman as Troy Folger, Marianne Jean-Baptiste as Gladys Jennip, Matthew Marsh as Dr. William Byars, Todd Boyce as Robert Aiken, Michael Paul Chan as Vincent Vy Ngo, Garrick Hagon as CIA Director Cy Wilson, Andrew Grainger as Andrew Unger, Bill Buell as Fred Kappler, Colin Stinton as Henry Pollard, Ted Maynard as CIA Administrator, Tom Hodgkins as CIA Lobby Guard

STYLE, SUBSTANCE AND CLASS! Spy Game will blow right over the heads of most
audiences and it obviously has. It's an underrated, taut masterpiece that
gets everthing right -- the writing, directing, editing, acting is all Oscar
caliber. Not to mention it's one hell of an ambitious production. Spy Game
is what happens when professionals in the business come together to make an
intelligent, masterfully crafted thinking man's actioner that as a viewer
you can have complete confidence in while viewing -- that's a rare thing
these days in Hollywood. It's a rare gem that reminded me of Clear and
Present Danger. Let's hope we see a lot more of this, and a lot LESS of
X-Men, Mission Impossible, Rush Hour, Pearl Harbor, Lord of the Rings and
other utter boring trash passed off as action fare.