2002 · action · adventure · comedy
I Spy
Directed by Betty Thomas1h 37m2002
When the Switchblade, the most sophisticated prototype stealth fighter created yet, is stolen from the U.S. government, one of the United States' top spies, Alex Scott, is called to action. What he doesn't expect is to get teamed up with a cocky civilian, World Class Boxing Champion Kelly Robinson, on a dangerous top secret espionage mission. Their assignment: using equal parts skill and humor, catch Arnold Gundars, one of the world's most successful arms dealers.
Our read: I Spy (2002) reads as a neutral, breathless, grounded action · adventure · comedy entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, extreme action / adventure, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- kinetic
- intense
- twisty
- epic-stakes
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“You want goofy early-2000s buddy spy chaos with Murphy and Wilson banter.”
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