Plot: What’s it about?
If you’re at all interested in conspiracy or gadgets or basically a good movie, Sneakers is for you. It seems that Robert Redford doesn’t appear in quite as many movies as he used to, but he still has “it”.
Director Phil Alden Robinson (Field of Dreams) has done yet another great job with Sneakers. It has a great ensemble cast and they all work well together. So, what’s it all about… Two college friends, Martin (Robert Redford) and Cosmo (Ben Kingsley) were fooling around with some pretty big bank accounts. Martin went for pizza and Cosmo got caught and was put in prision and supposedly “died” in there. Cut to the present…Martin Bishop (formerly Martin Brice) has put together a ragged group of people who have all had some sort of run in with the law. Their job is now to test security systems of banks, corporations…Basically, they’re using their “powers for good”, and get a small paycheck for their efforts.
Everything is fine, until two clients offer a rather large amount of money for a codebreaker invented by a famous mathmatecian. They get it, but not before realizing what damage that it (and they) could possibly do.
Now Cosmo is involved (eveidently did not die in prision) and wants to wipe out the world of computers so everyone can “start over”. They say that getting to the end is half the fun, well in this case, getting to the end of the movie is something you’ll not want to do. It’s just too fun of a movie. Great casting and good performances throughout.
Video: How does it look?
Presented in a nice, clean 16:9 picture, Sneakers has never looked better. Very little, if no artifacting is evident and flesh tones are natural. Colors are vivid, as well.
Audio: How does it sound?
A Dolby Digital 2.0 mix is provided, it does the job well, and has a suprising amount of bass. A very spatial mix, too. Nice sounding!
Supplements: What are the extras?
Usual Universal (say that five times fast), they provide cast bios and production notes and a trailer. I’d like them to give the royal treatment to this one. Hey, it could happen!
