Sentences with phrase «secret agent movie»

Not exact matches

It is somewhat the same in the new movies with Tom Cruise, but I in the old TV show, the secret agents would get a digital message from his boss which always began with a certain phrase.

Since disaster movies always come in pairs, 2013 also brings Antoine Fuqua's Olympus Has Fallen (March 22), which also depicts a terrorist infiltration of the White House, though one where Aaron Eckhart is the Commander in Chief and Gerard Butler is the bad - ass Secret Service agent.

The movie is based on a 2013 novel by Jason Matthews, an ex-CIA operative who reportedly brought much of his expertise to a story of two secret agents, one Russian and one American, navigating intricate surveillance missions around the world in a game of one - upmanship.

In this fact - based made - for - TV movie, Patricia Arquette stars as an FBI informant who has a secret affair with a married agent.

It invents a government agent in Harvey Russell (Jeffrey Dean Morgan: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, The Salvation), who announces that he is from a secret agency he can't name but, «when scientists shit the bed, I'm the guy they call to change the sheets»; he deserves a movie all of his own, not least because, just what the hell is happening in this world that he gets regular work?

The movie «Mission: Impossible,» out on video this week, replaces those elements with a story about a comparatively virtuous secret agent trying to survive in a world of shifting loyalties and greed.

Mercilessly ribbing the James Bond movies and Graham Greene's espionage entertainments, the ninth Carry On saw Barbara Windsor make her series debut as the most resourceful of a hamstrung quartet of agents sent to Vienna to recover a secret formula.

And yet, I do appreciate the B - movie charms of the Olympus Has Fallen and especially enjoy how approximately 64 % of the film consists of Butler's disgraced Secret Service agent wandering dark hallways and stabbing people in the head.

Spy has all of those fun trademarks from various spy movies: gadgets, double agents, secret identities, twists and turns, and a fun James Bond - inspired opening credit theme song called «Who Can You Trust» by Ivy Levan.

The earlier movies established Bond as Her Majesty's most resourceful secret agent, a lover and a fighter.

There have been whispers of a Nick Fury movie starring Samuel L Jackson, of a Hawkeye picture starring Jeremy Renner, and of one focusing on Black Widow, the iron - thighed secret agent played by Scarlett Johansson in that film.

It is basically the British Intelligence, without the Hollywood touch of James Bond or other movie secret agents.

Rather than slavishly adhering to its source material, the movies focus on the show's endless adaptable premise: a team of secret agents known as the Impossible Mission Force (IMF) embark on a series of globe - trotting, high - risk missions.

It's the return of the unintentional farce of «something has fallen and can't get up» movies featuring Gerard Butler as a secret service agent assigned to protect the President of the United States, played by the perpetually strong - jawed Aaron Eckhart.

So, if you're interested in a role in the Harry Potter movie, you better call your agent right now because, Hollywood is currently holding secret meetings about the future of the Wizarding World.

However, the first movie focuses on Eggsy (Taron Egerton) training to become a secret agent, while the second shows him in action as the new Galahad, so it's possible that the third may see him at the top of his game or in some sort of mentorship role.

Over the course of a movie, we can learn a little bit about being a secret agent, a brain surgeon or a drummer — and the best scripts provide the right amount of information about that profession to impact the storytelling.

A little - remembered 1969 movie, The Chairman was a vaguely Hitchcockian thriller which reunited star Gregory Peck with director J. Lee Thompson (after Cape Fear) and saw Peck play an American double agent who pretends to defect to the Chinese in order to steal some secrets off them, meeting Chairman Mao along the way.

An intermittently amusing riff on British spy movies, starring Colin Firth as a secret agent who takes a novice under his wing, «Kingsman» collapses into outlandish absurdity in its second half, sloppily careening from silliness to sentimentality.

The movie opens 17 years earlier when, while on a mission in the Middle East, secret agent Harry Hart (Colin Firth) is unable to prevent the death of a fellow agent.

After foiling a plot to seize the British crown in his first self - titled movie outing, incompetent British secret agent Johnny English is back, and must now prevent the assassination of the Chinese premier, in the expectedly silly but thoroughly entertaining Johnny English Reborn.

Imagine if the precocious secret agents in «Spy Kids» had been deployed on a mundane mission to terminate zealous developers, and you get the general drift of this latest in a barrage of family movies.

His character, secret agent Harry Hart, appeared to have been very, very dead in the last movie.

Last year's kiddie secret - agent comedy «Agent Cody Banks» was a stupid movie that got by on clever charm.

Movie review of «The Purge: Election Year»: Frank Grillo returns as a Secret Service agent trying to protect a presidential candidate (Elizabeth Mitchell) in the biggest, baddest, berserkest Purge so far.

Using his own well - honed aptitude for scrutiny and mimicry, Mr. Myers became one of the most successful comedians of his era, first on «Saturday Night Live» and in the «Wayne's World» movies, then as a saucy secret agent in the «Austin Powers» series and the voice of a misunderstood ogre in the «Shrek» animated features.

Hitting movie theaters this weekend: Apollo 18 — stars undisclosed The Debt — Helen Mirren, Tom Wikinson, Jessica Chastain, Sam Worthington Shark Night 3D — Sara Paxton, Dustin Milligan, Chris Carmack Movie of the Week The Debt The Stars: Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson, Jessica Chastain, Sam Worthington The Plot: In 1997, scandalous news reaches retired Mossad secret agents Rachel (Mirren) and -LSBmovie theaters this weekend: Apollo 18 — stars undisclosed The Debt — Helen Mirren, Tom Wikinson, Jessica Chastain, Sam Worthington Shark Night 3D — Sara Paxton, Dustin Milligan, Chris Carmack Movie of the Week The Debt The Stars: Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson, Jessica Chastain, Sam Worthington The Plot: In 1997, scandalous news reaches retired Mossad secret agents Rachel (Mirren) and -LSBMovie of the Week The Debt The Stars: Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson, Jessica Chastain, Sam Worthington The Plot: In 1997, scandalous news reaches retired Mossad secret agents Rachel (Mirren) and -LSB-...]

Dumber and less stylish than its predecessor, Kingsman: The Secret Service, the cartoonish secret - agent pastiche Kingsman: The Golden Circle is also even more of an incoherent right - wing text, an exaggeration of the James Bond movies» violence, fashion sense, and sex that keeps trying to pass off its ham - fisSecret Service, the cartoonish secret - agent pastiche Kingsman: The Golden Circle is also even more of an incoherent right - wing text, an exaggeration of the James Bond movies» violence, fashion sense, and sex that keeps trying to pass off its ham - fissecret - agent pastiche Kingsman: The Golden Circle is also even more of an incoherent right - wing text, an exaggeration of the James Bond movies» violence, fashion sense, and sex that keeps trying to pass off its ham - fisted...

On the year of Bond's 50th anniversary, here is Skyfall — a celebration of the character's full potential, this immortal member of mainstream fiction, in a glorious piece of entertainment that only has our respect for the «classics» keeping it from immediately being designated the secret agent's most spectacular movie yet.

«Olympus Has Fallen» was a pretty blatant rip - off of John McTiernan's «Die Hard,» so it should come as no surprise that «London Has Fallen» — which is more of a spiritual successor than a literal sequel to the 2013 film — takes a page from another installment in the John McClane series, «Die Hard with a Vengeance,» by staging it as a buddy movie between Gerard Butler «s gruff, no - nonsense Secret Service agent and Aaron Eckhart «s hostage - prone president.

When we last reported on «El Presidente,» the high - concept buddy movie about a clean cut Secret Service agent and the disheveled, alcoholic schlub of an ex-president he's assigned to protect, Tom Cruise was loosely attached, as was «Recount» director Jay Roach, with Robert Downey, Jr. being eyed for the pivotal role of the ex-prez.

Unfortunately, it seems our airdate this week comes before the actual release date of the film in the United States, so we thought we'd just cover that OTHER Avengers movie — the 1998 abomination starring Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman as posh, droll British secret agents attempting to stop Sir Sean Connery from holding the British ecosystem for ransom (we think).

With a subplot involving a secret agent (Winstone) the movie turns out to deliver a sharp, resounding message about our political system, special interests, and the potential of America.

Now, well - heeled Bond fans that feel the same way will have the rare opportunity to add the 1965 Aston Martin DB5 the British secret agent drove in the movie's opening scene — the first DB5 driven by Bond since the Sean Connery era.

I've completed 100 % of every game except for secret agent clank (seeing as that was on PSP) I am more than hyped to pre-order the new version, and watch the movie too!