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he's trying to stop the car the man from uncle Guy Ritchie's movie reboot of the classic Cold War spy series is soon to hit cinemas one man who's already seen it is suave undercover agent the man from cnet himself it's rich trend home and I rich hello double agent double age oh no not for something on that ah triple agent Triplett so is the film any good yeah I liked it it's a kind of breezy playful pastiche of 60 spy movies it's nowhere near as serious as all the spine moves we've seen in previous years so it's a it's it's really kind of fun it brings to mind James Bond but it also it also brings to my late Harry Palmer as well another kind of classic 60 spice so yeah I enjoy watching the trailers it definitely looks like there's a lot of style coming to the forefront here how does style play into the movie well it's easily one of the best dressed movies of the year if not for quite some time I mean right from the lead to an heir with Henry Cavill in his it's three-piece suit as Napoleon solo and then iliya Corey Arkin is the Russian agent who has a different a different look there's all these kind of 60s mod styles great mini dresses and chic outfits so it looks absolutely fantastic you could say that that it's a bit style over substance it's very very glossy and the plot isn't really that much to speak of but it's a real treat for a retro mod 60s fans how's the action in it what does it bring to the action movie table it kind of approaches each action scene instead of saying okay this is a car chase and showing you a car chase with the kind of conventions that we've seen before it tries to do something a little bit different so it's more of a game of cat-and-mouse than it is a sort of tire squealing you know smashing crashing kind of car chase there's quite a few action set-pieces actually which are deliberately played for for laughs and for comedy and done in a slightly different way which put me kind of in mind of the the study off-kilter way that they made the Ipcress file back in the 60s with that with Michael Caine so it's so it's a little bit different to your sort of your standard action-movie it's quite it's quite breezy and playful and quite fun with it okay now with Mission Impossible we've got another bond coming up at Kingsman and if it feels like spy movies are back in fashion yeah absolutely well it's interesting that that mission apostle rogue nation is another 60s reboot so it's an old TV show Kingsman is was was a very kind of again a very playful very stylish movie and I think we're starting to see with to sort of the idea of the gentleman spy the dashing spite here which is interesting because we've kind of finally learned that when we've already know always known that spying is a bit sordid a bit tawdry but now since Edward Snowden we've kind of learned that it's not only really sore there's also really banal so it's kind of interesting to her to see that we're taking solace in these so these fun dashing two-fisted gentleman spies again so would you recommend people go see it I think if you're a fan of 60 spy movies then it will hark back to the sort of the dip the movies you might watch on a Sunday afternoon like I say it is a bit in a bit lightweight but yeah definitely stylish and qualified okay well thank you we've got more of Rich's review which I heartily recommend you can find that and loads more at cnet com not now