‘U.N.C.L.E.’ is slickly, stylishly entertaining

POSTED: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2015 4:30 AM

By Johanna Love | 0 comments

If Ethan Hunt and his pals from the Impossible Missions Force ever took a breather and decided to have a night at the movies, I bet they’d like “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.”: So that’s how they did it back in the day! Check out those crazy old telephones and those old-timey planes and guns and cars!

Like the “Mission: Impossible” film franchise, “The Man From U.N.C.L.E” is based on a Cold War-era television series created in the 1960s. But whereas the Tom Cruise movies are set in the present day, and recent editions have only the most tenuous connection to the original material, Guy Ritchie’s slick, stylish and consistently entertaining take on “U.N.C.L.E.” is an origins story set in the early 1960s.

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