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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1638355/
https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/man-uncle

Two agents become an unlikely pair to thwart the creation and deployment of a nuclear warhead.

I overall liked this. It has a classy feel something like the old James Bond films but with its own flavour. Younger fans of that genre will likely also like this movie.

• Based on the television show The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

• United Network Command Law Enforcement

• The historical environment has somewhat the feel of Bridge of Spies (2015)[doesn’t exist] to me, but with action. I already like it.
• This dude is very James Bond. Pretty, calm, skilled.
• 9:30 — Napoleon Solo.
• 12:00 — The right thing to do? Fucking kill the man.
• .. have I seen this before? It all seems so familiar.
• 17:00 — I recognize Jared Harris from Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.
• 18:20 — I definitely know this movie. How strange to be liking this movie so far, but not remembering it.
• How handy our hero didn’t kill the super soldier.
• 32:00 — There would be less problem if both of them were killed. They couldn’t report back about the fight.
• 34:30 — Cry to Me, by Bert Berns.
• 36:30 — Where is this coming from?! Big strong man so I must sleep with him? Or because she’s drunk? Fuck right off.
• 37:50 — But she doesn’t know my five minutes. I’d give her ten. Repeatedl– wait, that wasn’t meant to be a penis length reference.
• 38:30 — A little device that beeps wouldn’t be good for a listening device. Or are those tracking devices? I don’t know.
• 44:00 — Interesting how they don’t show the cloth being pulled.
• Who wouldn’t see their bracelet being lifted when their hand is being kissed.
• 47:00 — What little weasel in their right mind would mistreat a monster like that.
• 49:15 — I thought they were supposed to not make contact.
• 50:20 — Gamma ray
• 51:50 — I’m pretty sure a cut fence would tell people they were there.
• 52:00 — Boron, Carbon dioxide laser
• 55:30 — Safe
• Swiss-made Vortbinder(?) Lansman(?) 7010 model.
• How handy he should have safe-cracking tools.
• 56:00 — Yes, safes do have flaws.
• 57:30 — Who in their right mind wouldn’t shoot those two guards before they fired?
• 57:50 — That’s not cover.
• 59:50 — My Italian isn’t good enough to look that song up.
• 1:11:00 — Boy is that phone unwieldy.
• 1:17:00 — I don’t recognize any of this. I don’t see why I wouldn’t remember it. Whatever I saw before must have been cut short. Maybe it was a preview of some sort?
• 1:22:30 — There’s no way his screaming couldn’t be heard, but this scene is still pretty funny. In a “torture can be funny” sort of way. This is still pretty uncomfortable in a “rape can be funny” sort of way.
• ~1:26:00 — I do recognize the dude in the helicopter with them. From somewhere, but I can’t quite place him.
• 1:30:00 — Montage. It’s a montage it’s a mawntage…
• 1:33:00 — That is a serious car.
• It ends with a proper breakdown of the agents.

• The final song is a cover (I think) of Take Care of Business, by Nina Simone.