Crwthod A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

Tyreece Hulme One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Wyatt There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Cristi_Ciopron If you want an usual, regular, conventional spy thriller, like other spy thrillers, AGENTS SECRETS is worth a try.A couple of secret agents, Mrs. Bellucci and Cassel (wife and husband in real life), are sent in Morocco to stop a cargo who transported weapons to Angola. The plan looks fairly simple. Cassel looks like a stud, and has a very French look too.On the other hand, there's little action and suspense; Mrs. Bellucci is filmed quite much, and we get rather a lot of profile—shots, angles to exploit her sensational beauty …. Her appeal's gist is that she looks almost involuntarily sexy—explosively, _orgasmicly sexy. (In the movie, a hoodlum says about a girl that you reach orgasm only by looking at her; this might be even truer about Mrs. Bellucci. ) Action—wise, and suspense—wise, i.e., thriller—wise, there's a lot of junk and dead ,tern footage. Here, Cassel is like a third—hand Delon impersonator. The action is lukewarm and _slowish.I am of the opinion that Mrs. Bellucci, like Mrs. Sandrelli, is not an actress for action roles; her glamor is essentially homely, intimate, and, moreover, _interiorized, not a Bond girl.A political talk—show (with Ciorbea !) was better.AGENTS SECRETS is rather _dullish. As for Mrs. Bellucci and the physical roles—might it be that, despite all fitness, this is the timeless Italian construction?

hannahvdb1 What strikes me are the parallels drawn between secret agency and stardom in this film. The irony of having two of Europe's most celebrated modern actors living the roles of ever-pursued spies; constantly aware of watching eyes, never certain of complete privacy, never comfortable, always chased and forever chasing, makes the actors' reaction to their lives as agents all the more personal. Furthermore the viewer, although perhaps subconsciously, is better able to identify with these parallels than with the sentiments of the characters themselves; celebrities are in our public-eye whereas true agents remain hidden and undercover.It is the truth bared in this film about human emotion that proves its success. The stagnancy of moments in waiting, the abuse of others to further your game, the love undermined by private affairs and physical relations... Schoendoerffer's shocking scenes such as Bellucci's drugging of the two small children in her care and of a mother she comforts, tinge the typical unblemished movie-spy personality with crimson reality. Instead of blindly sympathising with the film's heroes, the viewer must think and feel beyond the typical thriller/action movie requirements in order to appreciate the characters, their situations and the film itself.

rowmorg 1. I must care about the hero.In James Bond, for example, I know he is a vain, brainless army officer with a line in feeble sexist jokes, but I know he is going to get involved in some spectacular antics fighting a mad villain before he's off. In AGENTS SECRETS I couldn't be bothered with the hero at all. He was cold, uncaring, without gaglines or any other idiosyncracies. He might as well have been the villain. The attempt to set the French government up as good guys was laughable.2. The hero must encounter a major hurdle and overcome it.AGENTS SECRETS has no hurdle to speak of. At one point he is kidnapped, but his escape is over within half a minute. I was utterly indifferent to his fate.3. Boy must get girl.The girl said at the end she was "Empty, utterly empty". In other words our hero bought a bill of goods. No warm cuddles and dozens of babies for him. The two murderers drive into the hills and leave me unmoved.Break these rules and your film will be a total turkey. Like beyond pathetic, however much money you throw at it.Zero out of ten. Sorry.

naughtyjimmy (WARNING: SOME SPOILERS AHEAD) I'd like to vindicate this movie, since many people seem to have disliked it. And I'll tell you why: this is one of the best spy movies I've ever seen. I'm no expert about the world of espionage, but according to what I've learnt about real-life spooks, this movie is based on reality in many aspects.The plot is based on operations conducted by the real-life French spy agency (the DGSE) that really occurred: the bomb attacks on a German weapons trafficker in the 1950s who was supplying rebels in the Algerian War of Independence, and the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior, a ship owned by the environmental organization Greenpeace in 1985 in Auckland, New Zealand. In the latter case, just like in the movie, a French female spy infiltrated Greenpeace and stole plans of the ship to be bombed, and the actual bombing was carried out by French "nageurs de combat" (combat divers, more or less the French equivalent of Navy Seals), some of them posing as a couple of Swiss tourists during their stay in New Zealand.For what I know about the subject, the movie authentically depicts the modus operandi of real-life field agents, e.g. George (Vincent Cassel) avoiding being seen with his contact Tony (Eric Savin) during the operation in Casablanca; spy agencies hiring foreign mercenaries to do their deniable ops (i.e. dirty jobs) to make sure such ops will be deniable if discovered; agents being betrayed by their own hierarchy for reasons of "higher national interest"; the dirty tricks spy agencies of yet allied countries do to each other; and more specifically to the DGSE, the rivalry between the military officers (represented by Cassel, Bellucci and the Colonel played by Andre Dussollier) and the civilian technocrats (represented by the no-name black-haired cigarette-smoking guy in his early forties played by Bruno Todeschini), the former ones having lost control of the agency to the latter over the years (the DGSE was originally run by the French military). Many people found this movie boring, but that's because the lives of real spies are exactly like that! The director stated that he wanted to depict accurately the state of mind of real-life field agents (i.e. their solitude, the fear they perpetually feel etc.) and he has exactly achieved that, and his movie must be seen more as a documentary look on real spies, not as a James Bond/Jason Bourne-like action thriller. Those Hollywood movies aren't even remotely true to the real world of espionage. Even the British TV spy show "Spooks" seems unrealistic in comparison with this movie.I hope I have given some facts that will give a clearer perspective to some viewers, in order to better appreciate "Agents Secrets", which may indeed seem a bit difficult to understand for those who are unaware of the real-life background it is based on. And on a purely cinematographic level, this movie offers brilliant writing, directing, editing and acting. Vincent Cassel and Monica Bellucci convincingly portray two spies having to pose as a couple and always working professionally during their mission, i.e. they're always careful never to allow an ounce of sexuality in their relationship. This is all the more remarkable acting, as they were actually already married in real-life at the time of the shooting!A definitely memorable movie.