1963. CIA agents Napoleon Solo need to get to work on a German girl Gaby – and for this to drag it over the Berlin Wall from East Germany to West Germany. KGB agent Ilya Kuryakinu need by all means to prevent at all costs tsereushniku. American to win this fight, virtuoso leave the chase together with the girl – but soon finds out that he will not now have to skirmish with Kuryakinym and work in tandem with him. The KGB and the CIA suddenly agreed to fight a common enemy – the neo-Nazi organization that is about to collect a portable atomic bomb. And to collect her father is the very Gaby, so it is also necessary to take the team.
“Agents A.N.K.L.” (Original – “Man of A.N.K.L.”) is based on the series of 60-ies, and it is curious that Napoleon Solo for him came up with Ian Fleming – as a relief as his TV version of James Bond. On the big screen this show tried to drag since 1993. At first, the film was put Tarantino, then fumbled with it for a long time director Steven Soderbergh; the main roles at different times predicted all the big Hollywood actors (from George Clooney and Tom Cruise to Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon and Russell Crowe). Well, that’s a result of this pattern goes, by the author of “Maps, money, two trunks”, “Rock and rollers” and “Sherlock Holmes” Guy Ritchie.
And once I must say that the best that there is in this movie – the actors. Henry Cavill, who played Superman in the recent “Man of Steel” and there which looked like a man from a tree (in solid oak stump), is reminiscent of James Bond the past, the era when it was played Sean Connery and Roger Moore; Britishness always shines in Cavill, though he plays an American and a CIA agent. But even more fun Armie Hammer, great-grandson of a millionaire and a great friend of CCCR Armand Hammer (it is named in his honor, Armey – an abbreviation). In previous films (“Mirror Mirror”, “The Lone Ranger,” “The Social Network”) Hammer looked nothing more than a beautiful male model, taken to the cinema “for the texture.” Here he suddenly makes a real and quite irresistible character; his pathologically serious Ilya Kuryakin KGB men – the most glamorous Russian in a Hollywood movie in the last thirty years. Between the “cowboy” and “Bolshevik” disgust working together, there is what is called in the English word “chemistry” that allows you to gradually become best friends; Simply put, it’s a great duet.
This is certainly merit Ritchie – the director, who, according to the assurances of the same Cavill and Hammer is able to create on the court at the same time very relaxed and creative atmosphere. The problem of “agent” in a different atmosphere, which is not able to create Richie. This atmosphere of 60 – not even themselves 60, which neither the director nor the actors did not smell, and the then spy movies and TV series like the original “Man of A.N.K.L.” or “I Spy” (once directly compete with “A.N.K.L.” ‘th for the attention of the viewer). Juicy unbearably paint, sun-drenched European countries like Italy or Greece, careless samoparodiynost that need for the project, where the hero is called Napoleon Solo – all Richie is too tough; He too from another era, and subtle stylist can not say. Rhythm and daring chases – yes, and aestheticism – no, wrong address. He seemed to understand, but can not do anything – sincerely believes that you can recreate an era, just wearing a nose for the actress Alicia Vikander idiotic glasses and dress her up in a bright orange dress (though brilliant in this picture a little: Richie for some reason darkens the frame, filling it as withered shades of yellow and green). Yes, that really there: Richie filmed in Italy, in an interview strongly admired Rome – and eventually managed to barely show it on the screen.
And, as almost always, Richie is difficult to control the flow of their ideas, separating the good from the bad. Beautiful scenes (like the one where Napoleon Solo chewing a sandwich and drink it chianti, melancholically watching Kuryakin drowns in a nearby pond, and then, having finished, and obliznuvshis, with a sigh dragged him to save) alternate with scenes Underturned and optional. Great funny villains, intelligent sadists (German actor Sylvester Groth fun way smacks of old-gaydaevskogo Shurika) alternate with dull, non-performing parodies of villains (unfortunately, the latter refers to the heroine Elizabeth Debicki, clearly reminiscent of Paris Hilton wretch international scale, in which the most spectacular – name Vinchiguerra).
No, it’s not a bad movie. You will not die if his look. Culture Minister Vladimir Medina praise Guy Ritchie did not let for compliance with the historical truth, but at least that do not look Russian inhabitants of Mordor. But it could be a great, considering how many talented people invested in it. And so – well, it’s Richie, of course, it is uneven. He and his best works were uneven, with what would now begin.
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