Epic ending.

Better than some new Bond Films

Fritz Lang 's Spies (or Spione) sets itself up at such a breakneck speed that you immediately start to wonder if he can keep it up for two and a half hours. And despite the continuous runtime, he manages to make it more exciting than most matinée serials! A master at work, with great editing and inventive shots, giving real production value to this complicated tale of espionage full of moves and countermoves, at the center of which is a romance between a German secret agent and a Russian Mata Hari essentially forced to work against her "love at first sight". The villain is styled like Lenin, but is barely an inch away from a Bond villain, well ahead of his time. A spy runner and spy breaker working against the leads, but a wise Japanese spymaster as well. At that pace, a LOT happens, and I'm not going to pretend I understand everything as it happens - no more or less than a modern race-for-the-MacGuffen action spy thriller - but I felt no confusion by the end, even despite the crazy ending. But even when I felt lost, I was lost in great, great visuals and pure cinema, so no real problem.