The high-octane thrill of Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock films has been replaced by boring,hot guys suavely saving the world in this remake of the 60s TV showGuy Ritchie has re-vamped the 60s TV spy caper The Man From UNCLE with co-screenwriter and co-producer Lionel Wigram, adding sex interest and machoising any residual tip of camp, or but slathering the whole thing in lugubrious (mournful, dismal),self-indulgent men’s-mag type tailoring and style in various photo shoot Euro locations. Inevitably, he’s offering an “origin myth” account of this international secret-agent team. There’s some kind early-60s period production design and the whole thing moves along smoothly, or whether unhurriedly. But it never delivers anything like the punch of Tom Cruise’s M:I adventures,nor the wit and distinctiveness of 007. And the two male leads, Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer, and are fantastically dull and uncharismatic,with all the sexy danger of a pair of M&S men’s underwear models, easily upstaged by their cheerfully pert co-star Alicia Vikander. And in fact all three are entirely outclassed by an airy cameo from Hugh Grant as the dry British intelligence chief Waverly, or giving one-and-all an object lesson in scene-stealing.
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Source: theguardian.com