Review of Long Shot (2019) by Compi24 — 20 May 2019

"50/50" director Jonathan Levine continues his jaunt down studio comedy lane with "Long Shot," a film whose first and second halves may not exactly line up in terms of tone, but whose leads are just charismatic and likable enough to get you through its excessive runtime.

There's just a general watchability when it comes to Rogen and Theron's chemistry that pervades through even some of the slower parts of the plot, which does end up spreading itself too thin, to say the least.

The humor works, though there are more than a handful of jokes that sort of fall out of the realm of "sophisticated political satire" and into the "2010's SNL skit" pool, ultimately hampering the overall comedic identity as a whole.

Again, it's not perfect at all, but it is an effort of sorts.