Alicia Vikander, Elizabeth Debicki Talk Their Kick-Ass ‘Man From UNCLE’ Characters

Solo and Kuryakin will joint to stop a mysterious global criminal organization, led by Victoria Vinciguerra, able to destabilize the delicate balance of power through the proliferation of nuclear weapons and technology.

The third member of the team is actually the most interesting: Alicia Vikander is the sarcastic mechanic Gaby Teller, the East German daughter of the AWOL Udo, who gets caught up in the hijinks with the CIA’s and KGB’s finest. That pesky bomb isn’t going to find and disarm itself, is it?

The plot? It’s ridiculous, of course-a far-fetched game of cat-and-mouse where Soviet and American spies have teamed up to battle an inconceivable mix of nuclear-warhead-wielding former Nazis and a kaftan-wearing femme fatale (Elizabeth Debicki).

Solo and Armie Hammer’s KGB man Kuryakin are way too busy amusing themselves, and us, as they seek to figure out, charm and possibly defend themselves from the fabulous femmes in their midst. I loved his cadence and take on the role. It never feels like he’s playing a spy version of Superman. “I may, however, go and watch the TV series now that I’ve finished this”.

No matter how good the technical aspects are though, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.is set to be deemed a failure due to the miscasting in Cavill and hammer.

Hammer is a lug, saddled with a brut Russian accent that make him even more stiff than usual. The good news is that it’s all set up for another movie. The look of the picture is so bright and shiny that I fear some of you might be fooled into thinking you will enjoy what other critics have been calling “lame”. The language is nearly as clean as the suits they’re wearing. It’s a really bold and risky choice – it gives the audience something fresh and unexpected, but it also undercuts the value of the action, and the action is a major selling point for this kind of film. The great action is stitched together by some unexpected humor and wit.

Television to movie adaptations are tricky to pull off. In one hand, you have the mammoth critical and commercial success of the Mission: Impossible franchise or you have the financial disaster and rather boring The Lone Ranger. Not to mention, the film is accompanied by a killer soundtrack that has the flawless 60’s vibe.

But all credit to director and co-writer Guy Ritchie, he’s stuck with the 1960s timeframe, with its bold fashions, music and old-school clunky gadgets.

“Now that I’ve seen the finished film I can see Guy’s broader picture that he carried around in his head”, says Vikander, who portrayed the sexy android in the sci-fi film Ex-Machina earlier this year. Instead, we have to settle for a few clever lines of dialogue, a lovely aesthetic and moderate entertainment value, while thinking about how last year’s “Kingsman: The Secret Service” did this sort of thing considerably better.