Brad Pitt is reunited as a co-star with his A River Runs Through It (1992) director Robert Redford for this espionage hriller from Tony Scott. On the verge of retirement from the Central Intelligence Agency, veteran spy Nathan Muir (Redford) learns that his one-time protégé Tom Bishop (Pitt) has gone rogue and been taken prisoner in Beijing after attempting to smuggle a prisoner out of China. Although Muir and Bishop had once been close friends, sharing adventures from Vietnam to Berlin, bad blood and resentment developed between them, and the two men havent seen each other in years. As his memories of their friendship come flooding back, Muir agrees to take the most dangerous mission of his career -- the rescue of his old friend from a Communist jail. Spy Game (2001) co-stars Catherine McCormack as a human rights activist and Bishops love interest. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide