Based on a popular television show from the 1960’s featuring spies doing cool stuff with nifty gadgets, teaming up to overcome a shady global terrorist organization, action mixed with comedy, and sex appeal galore, audiences this summer have been treated to the well made spectacle known as “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation.”
We also got “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.”
To be fair, “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” is not a bad movie at all, as it is actually quite an entertaining and fairly breezy romp. The preposterously named Napoleon Solo (Henry Cavill) is a CIA agent who is forced to team up with a Soviet KGB agent named Illya Kuryakin (Armie Hammer), and they are tasked with finding a kidnapped Nazi scientist who is likely helping someone create the world’s first nuclear bomb.
To get to him, they use his estranged daughter Gabby (Alicia Vikander) to try to track him down, and they get all wrapped in a big ole plot involving an Italian heiress and a fake engagement and faulty torture equipment and an old fishing boat, the whole time with the two agents trying to one up each other and also with Illya and Gabby maybe sort of falling for each other along the way.Continue Reading …