The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is a reboot of the 1960's spy Cold War TV series that I only heard about and not so familiar with it's content and premise is director Guy Ritchie's (Sherlock Holmes, Snatch) most refreshing and relaxed film to date. His brisk pacing and signature editing compliments the good looking cast and stylish costumes that seems similar to TV's Mad Men.
When American CIA Napoleon Solo (Henry Cavill) team up with Russian KGB Illya Kuryakin (Armie Hammer) to infiltrate Italian industrialists with a rogue nuclear weapon that both the US and the Soviet Union want to seize, it would had been imaginable in that era for the two superpower to join forces but they did.
It also helps that both Cavill and Hammer have chemistry and rapport that echoed Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes' Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law's Holmes and Watson. He is turning out to be the master of the bromance action film. Hammer also redeems himself from his two previous box office misfires that also emphasizes male bonding in two ways: J. Edgar and The Lone Ranger. Breakout star Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina) though is wasted in a role that was underwritten and it's so good to see Hugh Grant again back into doing a summer blockbuster in a role may be the key for a sequel.
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