Thursday 20 September 2018 photo 2/8
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A retired CIA agent is recruited to participate in a prisoner exchange with the Russians.
Rogue CIA agent Sam Boyd is called back by "the Company" to do some work. Namely a hostage trade of jailed Soviet spy Pyiotr Grushenko for an American agent the Soviets had taken. In the newly united Germany the trade goes bad and Grushenko and Boyd find themselves on the run from both the KGB and the CIA as they unravel an International espionage plot set at the end of the Soviet era. American and Soviet find themselves in an uneasy partnership as they hop around Europe trying to stay alive. Notes: Baryshnikov hated this movie he refused to even do publicity for it.
So, the Soviets have captured a spy-plane pilot, so let's exchange one of the many Soviet spies we have caught. But... the Soviets demand an extra two million bucks? Simple, just do it, it's worth it.
Sam Boyd (Hackman) is brought out of retirement to arrange and escort the transfer. It would be too easy to just get the two cars to pull up in a supermarket car park, the guys get out and swap places, the cars drive away. So an elaborate process is gone through using the Berlin underground. The trains stop, the guys walk towards each other along the track, but then... Sam calls the swap off, and bullets fly.
Now Sam and his spy, Pyotr (Baryshnikov) are hunted by both the CIA and the KGB. All across Europe they go and then Paris where Pyotr's "girl" (real cute too), conveniently works at a bank and it is dead easy to transfer the money to a Swiss bank account even though the notes are numbered.
We know what will happen, but the way the movie progresses is fun to watch, except for the shoot-outs. Do the CIA and KGB never teach their guys to shoot accurately? It seems not. But if they did, a lot of movies would be a lot shorter. Maybe scope for a new movie "Gunfight at the top of the Eiffel Tower"?
A good-enough story, good characters, good acting, not much in the way of special scenes, some great lines but spoiled by the shooting, so I subtract a rating or two, to an 8.
The only reason I didn't instantly dismiss this film was because it was written and directed by Nicholas Meyer (who wrote and directed the only good Star Trek films). Gene Hackman as the lead actor lent it credibility as well, although I recall him doing B-grade films during this period, eg. Narrow Margin. The "all star" cast of supporting actors came as a pleasant surprise.
What I liked bout the film is that the story seemed "real", the characters were inspired by the real world rather than the world of movie-writing. Hackman's character ekes out a living doing petty Industrial Espionage (and not very successfully from the look of it). The bad guys aren't two-dimensional, they're doing what they believe is best. Neither side stays one step ahead, they simply wing it.
The European setting gives the film a little extra character eg. seeing one of those Trabants (with their horrible 2-stroke engine) in action. The film is rough around the edges however, with some shots given significance for no reason, and some important plot elements that if you blink, you'll miss. If I had watched this in the cinema I would have been confused by the whole thing.
I think David Mamet could take a few lessons from this film (his characters in "Heist" seem to possess a telepathic level of anticipation). Company Business is nowhere near as polished as Meyer's Star Trek films but it is enjoyable if you're willing to rewind when it stops making sense.
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