Review of The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018) by Greg C — 04 Aug 2018

She's not a little too much. She's a lot too much. There is an awful lot of awful here. But to start with the good, the action sequences are good and tight and seem like they are from a different director.

The McKinnon/Kunis chemistry is alright. The spy guys played by Sam Heughan and Justin Theroux are also reasonably compelling. Just about everything else falls apart. The screenplay is well,... bad. Director Susanna Fogel has let McKinnon run too far into weirdness.

I am not a McKinnon H8R. I liked her weirdness in Ghost Busters, but the same weirdness on display again here is not a display of acting chops. The movie is too long. It is essentially a comedy, but I did not laugh enough.

If you want a female lead spy comedy, see Melissa McCarthy's "Spy". OK, maybe The Spy Who Dumped Me is not completely dumb. It took me a sec to realize that if they switch off the thumbprint it would failover to passcode, which they cannot find because the guy is you know, dead.