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This has certainly been the year of spies, lies, secrets, terror attacks and covert operations as we have been spoiled for choice with regard to espionage action. It has come to light in most movie plots that lately directors opt to paint today’s world as a very dangerous one so who best to save us from the invisible jaws of death if not our intelligence organisations.

This has become the winning storyline for most action blockbusters including The Man From U.N.C.L.E, a 2015 British American action comedy spy film directed by Guy Ritchie (the director of  Sherlock Holmes (2009) and (2011).  The film is based on the 1964 MGM television series of the same name.

This time around, at the height of the Cold War, CIA agent Solo (Henry Cavill) and KGB agent Kuryakin (Armie Hammer) are forced to put aside longstanding hostilities.

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