The
setting of this film is the Cold War of the 1960’s. Napoleon Solo was offered a deal, become a CIA agent or go
to prison? His assignment is to
help Gaby Teller defect to West Germany in spite of the efforts of KGB agent
Illya Kuryakin. Later, the three
team up on a mission to stop a private criminal organization from activating a nuclear
bomb. Gaby’s father has the
scientific skills to accomplish to construct and arm a bomb. Napoleon gets on good terms with Victoria, the brains behind
this operation. Gaby pushes to
meet with her father to find out where the bomb is located. Illya is working with her and he is
supposed to be her fiancé.
I saw
this in a theater and I thought it was good. There is plenty of action, snappy dialogue, good character
development and a good story. This
is entirely different from the TV series that ran from 9/22/64 to 1/15/68. I recently watched one episode and it was surprisingly low budget. The movie was filmed in the United Kingdom and Italy with an
estimated budget of $75,000,000. 3
½* (I liked this movie)
116
min, Action directed by Guy Ritchie with Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia
Vikander, Elizabeth Debicki, Luca Calvani, Sylvester Groth, Hugh Grant, Jared
Harris, Christian Berkel, Misha Kuznetsov, Guy Williams.
Note: Imdb 7.6 out of 10, 67% critic 80%
audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Metascore 55 with 40 reviews, 7.8 with 117
ratings.
Special
Note: U.N.C.L.E. stands for United
Network Command for Law and Enforcement.
Their opponent in the TV series was Thrush, The Technological Hierarchy
for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity. My favorite quote is from Hugh Grant,
“For a special agent, you are not having a very special day? Grant has a small role and he will be 55 in September but
he is looking slightly old?
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