What’s it rated? PG-13
When? 2025
Where’s it showing? Netflix
After an 11-year acting hiatus, Cameron Diaz has returned to the big screen, but good grief, she couldn’t find something better than this derivative, silly, rote action comedy? Co-written and directed by Seth Gorgon (Horrible Bosses, Identity Thief), the film follows CIA spies Emily (Diaz) and Matt (Jamie Foxx) on a dangerous operation that goes sideways. Since Emily is pregnant, she and Matt decide to get out of the spy game. Fifteen years later and now married with children, they’re pulled back into espionage after their secret identities are compromised.
Foxx and Diaz do their best to make this generic pablum spicy, taking its Mr. and Mrs. Smith and True Lies-lite storyline into something entertaining. Unfortunately, its bland globetrotting nonsense is eye-rollingly implausible, and though the two stars have some chemistry and trade pithy quips with aplomb, it’s not enough to make this film worth the two hours of your life.
This is forgettable Netflix fare, the equivalent of cinematic fast food. If you’re really hungry for an action comedy, go ahead, indulge, but like a cheap burger, it may lead to momentary regret until your memory of the storyline quickly fades to black. (114 min.) Δ
This article appears in Jan 30 – Feb 9, 2025.