(ESP-ENG) Back in Action | One more spy story - Movie Review!

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I don't know what the intention is to make films that always hover under the same premise: retired spies with double lives. I guess when they make the proposals they think it's something that people will always like or because it's the easiest thing to do given the immense amount of films of these characteristics; I would believe that Netflix in less than 6 months has released like 3 similar titles. But despite all the cliché what I would really like to stay with is the return of Cameron Diaz to the big screen, the crush of many after films like The Mask or Charlie's Angels. We must also mention Jamie Foxx, who not long ago was in poor health.

This story is with Emily and Matt, two CIA agents performing spy and infiltration work to carry out operations against any enemy/terrorist/mercenaries that get in their way. The thing is that when they are celebrating the culmination of an operation something happens that turns everything upside down and what at first seemed solved is no longer solved. This gives them a chance to consider their lives and so they decide, they disappear completely from the map of this world. Years go by, 15 years to be exact, and they are in the middle of the average life, the typical American home, with ordinary jobs and a couple of very particular children.

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But as it always happens, the past never completely disappears from the lives of these agents and eventually returns to collect unfinished business. It is here when a chase begins through two countries where this family will try to get to safety and at the same time try to solve the mess that once again is arising around them. The truth is that everything has to do with a weapon or artifact that is capable of controlling many things (as always) and with a couple of people who are behind it (as always too). I know I'm inferring that there are a lot of clichés, because there are, but at the end of the day we are in front of an entertaining and typical film of this style. Beyond all this it's a film to watch on autopilot, without thinking too much.

This production will make sense if and only if there is a sequel. The gaps left with the ending are very big, it's very open ended how it all ends so if that was a directorial decision without the intention of a sequel, this is unfortunate. That's why I want to think that something else will come. If not, then the plot is left with unresolved things, this script would be very incomplete, I honestly don't see the point. Does this damage the movie? - A little, but it's not the end of the world. The plot itself is super flat, everything happens that one imagines and knows that it will happen since it is not the first time we see a film of this genre.

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As it is obvious there is a lot of comedy, Foxx is very good at it, plus the excess of charisma of Cameron Diaz. The chemistry between them is very good, I think they were the right ones for the film. If this has a flaw, I repeat, it is at the level of plot development. Even the action scenes, the choreographies of the fights and chases are very well done, I think it really manages to entertain a lot, which I think is the main objective of the film. Honestly I tell you that it is not boring despite the repetition of everything, it is a film to watch when you want to pass the time. As they say around these parts: the typical “cotufera” movie.

It's almost 2 hours long, a bit long, but that's because it focuses more on the family part than the action. It's on Netflix. I give it a 5.5/10, if a sequel is confirmed this could go up to 6/10. Let's hope so because if not it will be another failed attempt from the people of the big red N, one of those to which we have become accustomed. I leave the trailer here.

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Well my people that's all for today, I hope you liked it.
¡A hug to everyone, see you next time!