Agent Game: Review

8th April 2022

Harris (Dermot Mulroney) is a CIA interrogator at an agency black site. After an interrogation goes wrong though, he finds himself the scapegoat for what happened and has a target put on his head as a team led by Kavinsky (Adan Canto) closes in on his location to take him in.

In Harris’ team are Bill (Jason Isaacs) and Visser (Annie Ilonzeh) who work under him and are good at what they do. However, soon the team start questioning their orders as Harris is talking to his superior, Olsen (Mel Gibson) which leads to conflicting results for both teams.

Agent Game is a CIA thriller directed by Grant S. Johnson and is his first action movie. Set in a world where nobody can really trust each other, Johnson sets up the players and lets them move about as they find their strings being pulled by the mysterious Olsen. Unfortunately, there does seem to be a certain kind of audience to which Agent Game is trying to appeal and the pull of names such as Mel Gibson and Jason Isaacs just may not cut it.

The movie feels like it’s something out of the early 2000’s where there were plenty of real-world political rivalries and suspicions thrown about left right and centre. Something which may not work all that well today, but for those looking for something trying to be Homeland or Jack Ryan then they may not completely switch off.

Also, although there are still terrorists in real life, the narrative of the CIA interrogating somebody for information only to find his superiors are playing a more sinister game, feels similarly played out and unoriginal.

Fans of Mel Gibson and Jason Isaacs may be in for a disappointment as well as neither really seem to be doing much and the latter isn’t of much use by the end of the movie. In fact, it wouldn’t be at all surprising if none of the rest of the cast even knew that Gibson was in the movie at all. This is evident as he mostly talks over the phone to other characters. Also, even the rare scenes that are shared with other actors could have easily been edited to look like they were both in the same room.

Agent Game is quite dull, generic and feels like it’s from a time gone by. There are a couple of twists, but they too seem predictable and a film that was made because it had been a while since the last one.

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