'Secret Agents' (truthfully, I like the original French title more, 'Agents secrets') is a stab at a blockbuster-type spy thriller which works alright in some ways and less well in others, but I'm going to basically ignore all that as well as perhaps demonstrating my own parochial worldliness by focusing mainly on one thing -- about one second of one shot, really.
Partway through the film, Vincent Cassel and Monica Belucci go swimming in the ocean -- and before you start, we are not going to be talking about the latter in a swimsuit. The scene itself doesn't really serve any narrative purpose, but rather is there to show, at 32mins56secs, a green flash. Now I've heard of them, maybe you have as well, but in case not, it is an atmospheric phenomenon occurring when light is refracted so that there appears a bright green light above the rising or, in this case, setting sun. I've seen still photos of it but, while I'm sure there are videos of it, I'd never seen one and certainly not one captured by whatever fancy pants movie cameras were used here. Green flashes apparently only last a second or so, and I don't know that they are at all predictable, so it strikes me that it being captured here is all the more remarkable.
So on that basis, yes, you should watch this movie. Plus, there's a nice car flip involving a Peugeot 607.
So, 5 stars for Nature, 1/2 for the car flip, and, I dunno, 2 for the rest of the film (it's fine) which averages out to 2.5.
'Secret Agents' (truthfully, I like the original French title more, 'Agents secrets') is a stab at a blockbuster-type spy thriller which works alright in some ways and less well in others, but I'm going to basically ignore all that as well as perhaps demonstrating my own parochial worldliness by focusing mainly on one thing -- about one second of one shot, really.
Partway through the film, Vincent Cassel and Monica Belucci go swimming in the ocean -- and before you start, we are not going to be talking about the latter in a swimsuit. The scene itself doesn't really serve any narrative purpose, but rather is there to show, at 32mins56secs, a green flash. Now I've heard of them, maybe you have as well, but in case not, it is an atmospheric phenomenon occurring when light is refracted so that there appears a bright green light above the rising or, in this case, setting sun. I've seen still photos of it but, while I'm sure there are videos of it, I'd never seen one and certainly not one captured by whatever fancy pants movie cameras were used here. Green flashes apparently only last a second or so, and I don't know that they are at all predictable, so it strikes me that it being captured here is all the more remarkable.
So on that basis, yes, you should watch this movie. Plus, there's a nice car flip involving a Peugeot 607.
So, 5 stars for Nature, 1/2 for the car flip, and, I dunno, 2 for the rest of the film (it's fine) which averages out to 2.5.
