The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Director: Guy Ritchie
Synopsis
In the early 1960s, CIA agent Napoleon Solo (Cavill) and KGB operative Illya Kuryakin (Hammer) participate in a joint mission against a mysterious criminal organization, which is working to proliferate nuclear weapons.
Review by Jason Day (@cinesocialuk)
Expect a slew of camp and silly sixties TV programmes to appear on the big screen after this largely fun, largely daft adaptation of a show that is now more than 50 years old.
Guy Ritchie wields the megaphone duties in a film which doffs its cap appropriately to the ridiculousness of its predecessor but strikes out on its own with a fresh, brash approach and incredibly sexy cast.
That cast is led by Henry Cavill, he who is Superman no less, but there's no evidence of that as those well-pressed suits remain well and truly on. Artie Hammer is better value as his humourless Russian sidekick as is Elizabeth Debicki as a gloriously evil lady.
The action sequences are leavened with outrageous comedy (Cavill enjoying a picnic lunch in a van as Hammer carries on a boat chase behind him).
Good, but exceedingly silly fun.
Cast & Credits
Producers: Steve Clark-Hall, John Davis, Jeff Kleeman, Lionel Wigram. Writers: Guy Ritchie, Lionel Wigram. Camera: John Mathieson. Music: Daniel Pemberton. Sets: Oliver Scholl.
Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander, Elizabeth Debicki, Luca Calvani, Sylvester Groth, Hugh Grant, Jared Harris, Christian Berkel, Misha Kuznetsov, David Beckham.
