Fish and Cherries Productions

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. was a slick, witty, and action packed send up to the classic spy genre. Admittedly, I don’t remember a lot of it after the fact, but there was enough of Guy Ritchie’s charm and quirkiness that makes the experience as a whole stick with me. The characters aren’t the deepest, but they are still interesting, with special props going to Henry Cavill as a super-suave spy and Arnie Hammer as the tortured KGB agent. It can get pretty heavy, a lot heavier than other Guy Ritchie films, and the jokes aren’t always laugh-out-loud, but it’s cleverness and sense of fun is present and that’s what makes directors like Ritchie and Wes Anderson my inspirations.