‘Black Bag’ Review: Michael Fassbender And Cate Blanchett Are Spies In Love In Steven Soderbergh’s Stylish Thriller
deadline.comSteven Soderbergh‘s third collaboration with David Koepp in two years (Kimi and Presence), and the second to be released already in 2025, proves to be the charm for both with Black Bag, an exceptionally sophisticated and adult spy thriller that is also really the story of a marriage made more complicated by the fact both husband and wife work in the same spy agency.
With an A+ cast at the top of their game, a tight 93 minute running time, and dialogue with wit and bite, this finds the director with one of his best opportunities to do what he does so well and give that older audience a reason to go back to the movies.
Set in London, Michael Fassbender plays George Woodhouse, an intelligence operative for the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC), a kind of opposite of MI as it deals more in the technology side of things and crucially has a mole working to get hold of their cyber worm known as Severus which has the ability to intergrate itself into nuclear facilities and wreak havoc.
As the film opens George is given a list of five key suspects all with similar security clearance who may be acting as a double agent .
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