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When a high tech fighter plane’s stolen, the U.S. government believe that an arms dealer named Gundars has it and plans to sell it. So they send Alexander Scott to retrieve it. Now Scott though well-trained, is a little inexperienced and spends most of his time pining after another (female) agent. Now his superiors tell him that the best way for them to get close to Gundars is; Kelly Robinson, an egotistical and cocky boxer, who has a fight that’s scheduled to take place in the city that Gundars has the plane, and Gundars is a fan of his. While the operation seems to go well, Kelly’s cockiness gets them in trouble.
I Spy is a 2002 American spy comedy film directed by Betty Thomas, and starring Eddie Murphy, Owen Wilson, Famke Janssen, Gary Cole, Malcolm McDowell, Viv Leacock, Lynda Boyd, Sugar Ray Leonard, Keith Dallas and Larry Merchant. The film is based on the television series of the same name that aired in the 1960s and starred Robert Culp and Bill Cosby. The film was released in the United States on November 1, 2002 by Columbia Pictures.
About the Story
At the Bureau of National Security headquarters, Special Agent Alex Scott is accosted by his rival, Carlos, before being briefed on his next mission. Scott is assigned to recover a stolen fighter, the “Switchblade,” plane sold to arms dealer Arnold Gundars. Gundars is sponsoring Middleweight world boxing champion Kelly Robinson’s next match and using the event to auction the plane. The agency has contacted Robinson and assigned him to be the civilian cover for Scott’s mission. Scott and Robinson travel to Budapest, where Scott plans to penetrate Gundars’ compound during a pre-fight party.
Arriving in Budapest, Robinson is kidnapped. During the interrogation Scott bursts in, frees Robinson, and fights the kidnappers before revealing this was a test which Kelly passed by not divulging Scott’s identity. At Gundars’s party, Robinson replaces Gundars’s pen with a duplicate fitted with a tracking device before confronting his European challenger in the party’s boxing ring. Scott, posing as a member of Robinson’s entourage, uses this as a diversion to enter Gundars’ private office and hack his computer. Robinson arrives unexpectedly and trips an alarm. The two are forced to escape and manage to evade their pursuers by hiding in a sewer.
After returning to base, Robinson coaches Scott into winning Agent Rachel Wright by feeding him lines from the song “Sexual Healing” by Marvin Gaye. Scott succeeds, but is interrupted by movement on the pen tracking device. He tracks Gundars to a bathhouse, which Scott believes is a dead end. Robinson has a hunch that the plane is hidden in the building, leading the two into a fight with Gundars’s men. Gundars speeds off in his car, with Wright in pursuit. Wright’s car explodes and Scott blames Robinson for her death. The two engage in a public confrontation that leads to Robinson’s arrest. Scott convinces the BNS that the operation can continue and tracks Gundars down again.
I Spy (2002)
Directed by: Betty Thomas
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Owen Wilson, Famke Janssen, Gary Cole, Malcolm McDowell, Viv Leacock, Lynda Boyd, Sugar Ray Leonard, Keith Dallas, Larry Merchant
Screenplay by: Cormac Wibberley, Marianne Wibberley, Jay Scherick, David Ronn
Production Design by: Marcia Hinds
Cinematography by: Oliver Wood
Film Editing by: Peter Teschner
Costume Design by: Ruth E. Carter
Set Decoration by: Nathan Lomax, Elizabeth Wilcox
Art Direction by: Doug Byggdin, Bo Johnson
Music by: Richard Gibbs
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for action violence, some sexual content and language.
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures
Release Date: November 1, 2002
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