The Man from UNCLE is new on Netflix — but Armie Hammer is still in it
For the better part of a decade now, I’ve been checking in from time to time on whether Guy Ritchie’s 2015 spy caper The Man From U.N.C.L.E. was available for casual streaming. As a spy movie, I enjoyed it more than any James Bond or Jason Bourne film, or even any Mission: Impossible movie — Ethan Hunt’s big stunts and endless face-swapping are a good time in the theater, but they rarely stick with me long. The Man From U.N.C.L.E. has a particular form of ensemble energy none of those movies have. It’s also a film built around a few really specific, endlessly revisitable setpieces in the way that makes easy streaming access to it more of a draw than owning a copy. So I was psyched to see it finally hit Netflix on July 27 — except that now I have to figure out how I feel about Armie Hammer.