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The spies of the title are two Pentagon burglers sent on a mission by the CIA, unaware of what it is they have accomplished. They are in fact unwitting decoys for two other agents whose purpose is to track down a stray soviet missile in Siberia.
The plot, such as it is, ON RELEASE for some time now, Spies Like Us was not a film I was particularly keen to see. How I ended up seeing it is another story that I won't dwell on. However, after viewing the film I found my initial misgivings were misplaced and that the film was an enjoyable and, and in one way at least, refreshing takes second place to the misadventures variuus these two expendables find Reviewed by Terry Luke themselves caught up in.
Part homage to, part send up of those old Hope and Crosby road movies (it's even corny enough AFTER a tremendous last-minute effort, the fund tranquilise them instead -I could think of a lot worse wavs to spend a couple of hours. Sitting through a Stallone film, for instance.
It is in fact the first genuine detente some time. And in these days of Rambo and Chuck Norris that's got Never cinematically.
Hopefully there might yet be an American film lllal DIESCHILS the araguans as regular people who listen to the old Stax records. Too much to ask? Directed by John Landis and starring Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase and Donna Dixon, Spies Like Us is on general release across Britain.
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