I Spy (2002)
6/10
Starring
Eddie Murphy
Owen Wilson
Famke Janssen
Malcolm McDowell
Directed by Betty Thomas
I saw some of the old I Spy by Robert Culp and Bill Cosby it was a
serious series thriller with no comedy at all. This version with Owen
Wilson and Eddie Murphy is all jokes with every spy fun they could
lay their hands on.
The character both of them played were misfits who are having
challenges being in the same place at the same time. Together where
ever they went chaos and comedy followed and I just could not stop
but laughing all the way through this movie. Sad that this movie was
not a box office success because this movie had many ways a second
part could go.
The movie is directed by Betty Thomas and she was the same person in
the director sit for Murphy’s version of Doctor
Dolittle (1998).
The movie plot is about two men who make a chaotic union because the
country needed them to be. One of the men is Kelly Robinson (Eddie
Murphy) who is a middleweight boxing champion. The other is Special
Agent Alex Scott (Owen Wilson) who just got promoted to special agent
and is not the best at the job and the first mission we witness him
at work proves it.
Their mission was about a stealth plane which is in the hands of arms
dealer Gundars. Gundars is looking to sell the plane to the highest
bidder and Alex’s agency wants to stop that. Gundars is a boxing
lover and he is hosting a middleweight boxing match in Budapest. The
match has Robinson taking on a challenger for his belt and the U.S.
government wants to use this as a cover to get Alex into the mix so
he can recover the plane.
Alex was not the first choice for this mission, but the main spy for
his agency is too popular and so he would not have been able to be of
help.
The two misfits started off trying to show the other which was in
control, this whole process of trying to get one over the other was
an problem initial problem until they found a balance. Then there is
Alex’s crush Agent Rachel Wright, who Robinson is tries to help
Alex woe.
This movie is all laughs and it takes no prisoners, it is odd that
the movie was both a commercial and critical failure. Many disliking
it because of the plot and the movie being like Wilson and Murphy
trying to show off to each other who is funnier.
I for one liked that about the movie, it gave me enough reasons to
laugh and the plot is simple. They removed all the complexity and
focused more on the laughs.
I believe the movie is funny, fun and many just misjudge it.
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