This one I think I can blame on Christy. She loves Jason Statham. Susan Cooper (Melissa McCarthy) is the analyst behind super-spy Brandon Fine (Jude Law). She sits in a basement while he sips champagne and quietly pines over him. But when Fine is killed by Rayna Boyanov (Rose Byrne) and the identities of all the CIA's top agents are revealed, Susan volunteers to go undercover to find a briefcase nuke Rayna is preparing to sell.
It's fine. Sure. As a spy spoof it's got all the requisite elements. McCarthy can be very funny with the right vehicle but I'm not a fan of this particular style of humor. It relies on a lot of low-hanging fruit. None of the insults are particularly witty or biting, just sophomoric comments on clothes or hair. The physical comedy is low-brow and it just seems likes it's trying way too hard to capture some kind of zeitgeist moment but doesn't bring anything new to the table. It's serviceable but nothing that's going to make a statement.
It's currently streaming on Amazon's free service FreeVee, a terrible name that replaced the equally terrible IMDbTV.
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