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  • 2008
  • Not Rated
  • MPI Media Group
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 2008
  • Not Rated
  • MPI Media Group
  • 1 h 39 m

Summary After a fellow agent and close friend is murdered, agent Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, aka OSS 117, is ordered to take his place at the head of a poultry firm in Cairo. This is to be his cover while he investigates Jack's death, monitors the Suez Canal, checks up on the Brits and Soviets, burnishes France's reputation, quells a fundamenta...

Directed By: Michel Hazanavicius

Written By: Jean-François Halin, Jean Bruce, Michel Hazanavicius

  • 2008
  • Not Rated
  • MPI Media Group
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 2008
  • Not Rated
  • MPI Media Group
  • 1 h 39 m

OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 20 Critic Reviews
62
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 25 User Ratings
7.4
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Summary After a fellow agent and close friend is murdered, agent Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, aka OSS 117, is ordered to take his place at the head of a poultry firm in Cairo. This is to be his cover while he investigates Jack's death, monitors the Suez Canal, checks up on the Brits and Soviets, burnishes France's reputation, quells a fundamenta...

Directed By: Michel Hazanavicius

Written By: Jean-François Halin, Jean Bruce, Michel Hazanavicius

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 20 Critic Reviews
62
75% Positive
15 Reviews
15% Mixed
3 Reviews
10% Negative
2 Reviews

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 20 Critic Reviews
62
75% Positive
15 Reviews
15% Mixed
3 Reviews
10% Negative
2 Reviews

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91
The real joy here is the performance of Jean Dujardin, who, besides being very funny as the Gallic Maxwell Smart, is also enormously charismatic and is made to look uncannily (and I do mean uncannily) like the young Sean Connery of "Dr. No" and "Goldfinger."
By William Arnold FULL REVIEW
78
A consistently entertaining parody that never once makes you feel like an idiot for laughing out loud at its idiocy.
By Marc Savlov FULL REVIEW
75
A giddy French comedy.
By Walter Addiego FULL REVIEW
70
Light and fun, if also a little slight, OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies is like a pleasant sorbet to wash away the aftertaste of the pre-summer clunkers.
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63
An arch espionage comedy that's never as amusing as it thinks it is.
By Wesley Morris FULL REVIEW
50
A movie whose satire proves as lame as its clunky title.
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25
Let the French stick to love stories and leave stupid comedies to Tinseltown.
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW

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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 25 User Ratings
7.4
68% Positive
17 Ratings
28% Mixed
7 Ratings
4% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 25 User Ratings
7.4
68% Positive
17 Ratings
28% Mixed
7 Ratings
4% Negative
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Production Company Gaumont, Mandarin Films, M6 Films, Canal+, CinéCinéma, Artémis Productions, M6, Tax Shelter du Gouvernement Fédéral Belge, Belga Films
Release Date May 9, 2008
Duration 1 h 39 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Tagline The Prride of French Intelligence
Website http://www.musicboxfilms.com/oss-117
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Awards

César Awards, France
• 1 Win & 5 Nominations
Globes de Cristal Awards, France
• 2 Nominations
Étoiles d'Or, France
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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