Review of Spy (2015) by Closeremperor16 — 06 Jul 2015
"I once drove a car off a freeway, on top of a train, while I was on fire. Not the car -- I was on fire!" Growls Jason Statham’s Super macho super spy during one of many hilarious scenes in this Over the top spy comedy.
Subtle this isn’t! What it is, is stuffed with Hilarious performances from all the lead actors and an absolutely scene stealing performance from Jason Statham’s as a super Macho parody of his normal action hero persona.
Spy is a raucous in your face Spy comedy that also has really good amount of entertaining action, McCarthy is excellent in the comedic elements and surprisingly proficient in the action scenes.
The standout action sequence being a brutal hand to hand and knife to knife (and frying pan to knife and.... on and on ) that was not only the best fight in the film but on par with some of the best action scenes in the genre (yes I would include the Bourne fights).
McCarthy manages to be swing between awkward secretary and bad ass super spy and does so in a convincing and entertaining way.
The plot plays around in silly spoof territory with just enough serious elements thrown in to make this feel like more then just a spoof but actually a pretty competent spy thriller, between this and Kingman we are having a pretty good year for the spy genre so far 8.5 out of 10 but I rounded the score up to 9.
This review of Spy (2015) was written by Closeremperor16 on 06 Jul 2015.
Spy has generally received positive reviews.
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