Why are Reality Spy Movies or serise so boring?
Who among IMdb fans has not seen many or most of the endless fantasy OO7 ‘’spy’ movies? Absurd ‘works of art’ adorned with fabulously ‘hot’ looking young women, never nude. God forbid, nary a glimpse of bare feminine breasts (American audience needed by European producers for blockbuster results so keep in mind seeking no worse than a PG-13 rating). Traditional 007 type ‘Spy’ movies bordering on comic and not to be taken seriously, are full of polished mayhem and implied super-soft sex action not forgetting the inevitable villains drawn from central casting, usually with evil Continental or highly-educated British accents. One has to admit that the end result was usually highly entertaining.
Then came the many attempts at Spy reality movies; The ‘Gorky Park’ or ‘Russia House’ type, although ‘The Spy that Came in from the Cold’ dates back to 1965 and is a boring as the rest of this sub-species of the main Spy genre.
I have only just finished watching Episode 1 of The Game series set in the unremarkable and best forgotten 1970s when maxi-skirts, feminine wigs and dark brown and avocado green colours were the fashion. Meanwhile, the fond memory of Britain’s ‘ Swinging Sixties’ was already fading.
The series begins with a young couple strolling among woods along the dismal banks of a Polish river. However, the sets and outdoor scenes are mostly set in central London displaying damp miserable and chilly looking November streets and sleazy workmens’ clubs with unfunny stand-up comedians.
The theme among the Soviet enemy seems to be the nasty murderous and pasty–faced KGB agents who tend to peel apples with deadly looking daggers and the gossip at MI5 that the Kremlin is 'obviously' developing something that is not good at all. Back home at MI5 the main concern is ‘there is a Mole among us at M15, who is it?” , and for some i t narrows to 'where are ther other plain looking female MI5 assitants (no Judy Dench like bosses) to bed with for lack of anything better to do in the evening. The only half-decent looking woman so far shown expires in the first ten minutes of the pilot episode. There is a scrap of fantasy and a grain of unexciting ‘sexual romance between the sheets in a drab 1970s bedsitter but Episode was sadly lacking the James Bond glitter and humour.