Review of Spy (2015) by Amanda — 24 Jan 2016
Melissa McCarthy plays a CIA analyst Susan Cooper who guides the super spy Jude Law around as he performs his dangerous undercover missions. One mission goes awry and soon a ruthless villain (Rose Byrne) knows the identity of all the agents.
This forces the hand of the CIA director as they must put Cooper out into the field. This scenario writes itself as you have a overweight nonathletic woman doing one of the most dangerous jobs. Spy has its moments of comedy for sure, and for me Jason Statham who is one of the other agents steals every scene and offers more comedy than McCarthy did.
Spy has many forced offense scathing jokes between McCarthy and Byrne to try and keep the film on all cylinders as well. Spy is a good enough action comedy, but I would not recommend it to everyone.
This review of Spy (2015) was written by Amanda on 24 Jan 2016.
Spy has generally received positive reviews.
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