- spy game is about Tom Bishop who gets captured (Brad Pitt)
- Robbert Redford retires
- Robert finds out Bishops captured
- he works against CIA to free him
- CIA interviews Robert
- Bishop is freed
- Robert leaves CIA
- CIA realise what he did
task - what made spy game a gooo thriller?
good
- star apeal
- action
- sense of mystery
- race against time
bad
- no cheap suprises
- not enough enigma codes
- not much tension
- lead story not exiting enough
task - loooking back at spy game what was is needed for it to be a good thriller?
what make a good thriller
- restricted narration
- enigma codes
- something to save
- red herrings
- theatre of the mind
- interlinking story-lines
- sense of realism for the audience
- non linear
- twists to put you off the plot
my review on 'spy game'
From watching spy game I would say it was a satisfactory thriller but it didn’t draw me into watching it. For me this film lacked in building up the tension and creating suspense, when I watch a thriller I expect it to make me jump and sit at the edge of my seat but this never happened. There were no cheap surprises and not enough enigma code. There was a lot of action within the film and it contained time ellipses which were irritating, they never made sense I didn’t get why they kept showing it part from time going by. A good thing about this film was that it had a red herring however i never understood what was happening. The thriller sub genre I think it falls into is an espionage, it used a non linear narrative as it constantly had flashbacks and it had lots of takes in 2 locations which was very boring Overall this thriller was good however not my cup of tea and i wouldn’t encourage anyone to watch it.
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