More trailers need Nina Simone, at least if they want to win me over. I don’t care if The Man From U.N.C.L.E. winds up being any good. I can just watch the latest (UK) trailer. If the movie does turn out to be a smash, then all the better. It will provide more proof that 2015 is the year of the (good) spy movie resurgence. Not only do we have a new James Bond installment this fall, but there’s also Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies. And comedies like this one that sort of link that latter serious effort and the goofiness of the current box office hit Spy.
Like Bridge of Spies, Guy Ritchie‘s The Man From U.N.C.L.E. is set in the 1960s and concerns the Cold War, though the comedy deals with a greater and sillier cooperation between American and Soviet intelligence. Like Spy, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. features a female villain, here played by Elizabeth Debicki. She has the unfortunate job of following Rose Byrne’s hilarious turn in Spy, but this TV series adaptation may be able to make up for it well enough with the chemistry between Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer.
This looks like it’ll be as much of an ’80s style buddy action movie as ’60s spy film throwback. The current Superman and almost-was-Batman actors also get some help from the It Girl of the moment, Ex Machina‘s Alicia Vikander. The trio have an appealing rapport in these couple minutes that promise something much more balanced than the Robert Downey Jr./Jude Law/Rachel McAdams grouping from Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes movies.
Here’s the official synopsis via Warner Bros.:
Set against the backdrop of the early Sixties, at the height of the Cold War, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. centers on CIA agent Solo and KGB agent Kuryakin. Forced to put aside longstanding hostilities, the two team up on a joint mission to stop a mysterious international criminal organization, which is bent on destabilizing the fragile balance of power through the proliferation of nuclear weapons and technology. The duo’s only lead is the daughter of a vanished German scientist, who is the key to infiltrating the criminal organization, and they must race against time to find him and prevent a worldwide catastrophe.
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. also stars Hugh Grant and Jared Harris and opens on August 14th. I won’t be surprised if this is one of the surprise hits of the summer.
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