Film Name:谍海危情 / Legacy of Lies
Twelve years ago, Agent Martin failed to handle an intelligence transfer mission, resulting in the death of his wife and the failure to get the information. Martin retired from intelligence work and went to work as a nightclub security guard and part-time amateur boxer.
Twelve years later, Sasha, the daughter of the dead informant, suddenly shows up to find Martin, hoping to get back the information. The CIA is on to her, and Russian agents kidnap Martin’s daughter and demand that he hand over the information.
Martin and Sasha go to a Ukrainian bank safe to retrieve the information. At the last moment, the daughter is rescued, and Sasha jumps into the river with the information and poison to escape. Shortly afterward, Sasha released the contents of the documents from that year, and international outcry ensued.
It’s a very simple story, and since it’s a small-budget movie, it’s understandable that there are no flashy special effects to add to it. But the plot of the second half of the movie is completely flat, almost no suspense, a little let a person sleepy, director and screenwriter storytelling level is really let a person a little miserable.
There are also some details of the plot is also very rough, especially the part related to the CIA, I feel that the CIA is more amateur than the Taliban.
The CIA office in London feels like a rough factory building, and Martin casually breaks in and points a gun at the computer technician. There’s clearly security footage on the computer screen, and the CIA’s defenses are so amateurish that they let people just casually feel their way in? Instead, when the gun-toting SWAT guys arrived later, they did see it from the monitor.
Martin wrestled with the CIA agent and, seeing that he was falling into a siege, shouldered the broken window and fell out. Martin actually knew that there was a dumpster under that window instead of flat ground to fall through? The two of them fell out of the window, the CIA so many people actually do not look from the window to see if you want to make up a few shots, directly turn their heads and rushed downstairs, probably only three or four floors so high, even in the window to make up a few shots, Martin can not run away, the CIA’s IQ people let a person is really disastrous.
Martin and Sasha in the broken house again surrounded by the CIA, the two began a monkey show, Sasha a moment with a gun pointed at Martin, a moment with a gun pointed at himself, and then the CIA on the mouse, let the two people easily leave.
Later, Sasha with poison and intelligence running jump bridge, a group of CIA bang shot hit floundered not hit, at that moment, as if the Spy 3 Matt Damon possessed general, but Matt Damon was hanging the most cattle agent aura plus only one person in the darkness far away from a gun to escape a hijacking, Sasha in a burst of close-range gun actually unharmed, so that a person deeply suspect that this group of the CIA shoots the The CIA shot the guy is not to see the color of the intention to put empty gun.
Summarize: the whole film for the interpretation of the spy is too far-fetched, there is really no highlights in the plot, a few action scenes are not intense enough, wrestling seems to be real lack of passion, gun battles did not increase the plot of the ups and downs, but in the emotional treatment is not bad, look at the end of the appearance seems to be Martin and Sasha good, who knows if this is a trap, the sea of spies is acting smashed, but the danger is not reflected! The sequel will probably make up for it, after all, there is a suspense at the end of that one.
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