I wonder if the parody was more original than expected but think the satire runs deeper here Agent 86 and his cohorts seemed original enough in this comic parody with room to breathe between one-liners. But at times the camera stuck to long on some of the action sequences and I thought the movie could have said more, more about the sub-plot or what agent 23 was up to in the end.
Here is where you can see an actor behave much in the same way as Don Adams, with a careless eye for adventure that challenges the original version and witness some sparring between him coupled with a younger agent 99.
The subplot between the two was credible enough as was the sub context that one of the agents in the inner circle might be a double agent. But I would have appreciated a lead in to that although that might have made this more of a drama and less of a comedy. Their chief was quite credible too behind the desk and behind the wheel of an airplane.
The plot bespeaks of a time when Russia was enemy number one and one could only imagine how some agents must have thought of themselves as invincible. Control was out to destroy the good guy security network and a very serous James Caan has no idea how close he character was to a bomb threat at a Disney Center. Agent 99 gets dirtied up in the final action sequence making this a twist from the original Don Adams get messed up all the time and in the end I thought that the film brought us back at appreciating a parody of their parody on agent versus agent.
