The Man From U.N.C.L.E is a movie about a CIA and KGB spy who must, very reluctantly, team up, to stop a criminal organization getting their hands on some nuclear weapons. In doing this, they enlist the help of Gaby, the daughter of a German scientist, who is currently missing.

The Man From U.N.C.L.E feels refreshingly traditional in this era of hyped up and rewritten remakes, and thus it relies on its cinematography and its score to give it its modern twist. The result is a movie that’s both full of style and visually interesting, where the humour is visual and verbal in equal measure.

Henry Cavill plays Napoleon Solo, the American CIA agent who is smooth and suave to a fault, the fault being that he is almost devoid of a personality and becomes at times just a series of jabs, quips, and one-liners done in a deadpan tone, adding a lot of humour and style, but not much substance. Indeed, his first encounter with Illya Kuryakin (Armie Hammer), the Russian spy, who Solo charmingly and almost fearfully refers to as ‘it’, is his closest moment to showing actual emotion,

And speaking of Armie Hammer, his portrayal of Kuryakin was quite a bit more interesting, with his exaggerated accent and with his uncomfortableness with all things Un-Russian adding humour and his dramatic psychotic episodes adding intensity, he makes for a good watch. In fact, his moment wrestling and dancing with Gaby was as amazing as it was partly because it had his humour and intensity.

As for Gaby (Alicia Vikander), what can I say? She was strong, smart, vulnerable and mischievous all at the same time.

All things considered, the movie was solid.