Limited release 8/14/15
Saw this sometime in October, 2015
RT Critic: 67 Audience: 76
Cag: 4 Liked it a lot
Directed by Guy Ritchie
Warner Bros. Pictures
My comments: I totally enjoyed this. I was sure it wouldn't live up to my loving memories of David McCallum's Illya Kuryakin, but it did...and perhaps even surpassed those memories. The two protagonists were cast really well. The story was interesting, and the time flew by.
RT Summary: Henry Cavill ("Man of Steel") stars as Napoleon Solo opposite Armie Hammer ("The Social Network") as Illya Kuryakin in director Guy Ritchie's "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.," a fresh take on the hugely popular 1960s television series. Set against the backdrop of the early 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." centers on CIA agent Solo and KGB agent Kuryakin. Forced to put aside longstanding hostilities, the two team up on a joint mission to stop a mysterious international criminal organization, which is bent on destabilizing the fragile balance of power through the proliferation of nuclear weapons and technology. The duo's only lead is the daughter of a vanished German scientist, who is the key to infiltrating the criminal organization, and they must race against time to find him and prevent a worldwide catastrophe.
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