"I cannot kill my friend, kill my friend."
Sneakers is an outstanding but probably mostly forgotten movie. The cast has James Earl Jones, Sidney Poitier, Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd, Ben Kingsley plus many others. It's a spy movie, but they aren't spies. IMDB has it listed as Caper, Dark Comedy, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Redford gets the most screen time, but everyone gets a chance to shine. It's fun to look back on what future technology was to look like. It is funny and has good dialogue. It seems to know when it's being too campy. There is some silly dancing and blind driving along the way. It has a great San Francisco setting. It trusts it's audience and doesn't need to explain everything. I don't know anything about Phil Alden Robinson, but he also did Field of Dreams which is a top 3 baseball movie and also has a fantastic soundtrack. In this scene the blind man is the smartest one. Two things - Scrabble and the box tampering happening simultaneously on top of the score with an eerie conclusion.
Sneakers is an outstanding but probably mostly forgotten movie. The cast has James Earl Jones, Sidney Poitier, Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd, Ben Kingsley plus many others. It's a spy movie, but they aren't spies. IMDB has it listed as Caper, Dark Comedy, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Redford gets the most screen time, but everyone gets a chance to shine. It's fun to look back on what future technology was to look like. It is funny and has good dialogue. It seems to know when it's being too campy. There is some silly dancing and blind driving along the way. It has a great San Francisco setting. It trusts it's audience and doesn't need to explain everything. I don't know anything about Phil Alden Robinson, but he also did Field of Dreams which is a top 3 baseball movie and also has a fantastic soundtrack. In this scene the blind man is the smartest one. Two things - Scrabble and the box tampering happening simultaneously on top of the score with an eerie conclusion.
This scene is the group trying to do surveillance in recovering the black box. Once again the blind man is the smartest one.
YouTube - You Can Do That in Mexico City
Bishop trying to find out where he went to when he was kidnapped. Once again the blind man is the smartest one.
YouTube - What Did the Road Sound Like?
Here Bishop gets caught stealing the box, just watch the movie at this point if you made it this far.
YouTube - Who Hired You?...Huh?
Bishop trying to find out where he went to when he was kidnapped. Once again the blind man is the smartest one.
YouTube - What Did the Road Sound Like?
Here Bishop gets caught stealing the box, just watch the movie at this point if you made it this far.
YouTube - Who Hired You?...Huh?
Here Cosmo played by Ben Kingsley basically just breaks down Project Mayhem.
And two more clips cause it's all amazing.
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