Review of The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018) by Eludiumq36 — 23 Oct 2018
What is this, another Saturday Night Live production?! Half the cast are washouts from there. I think this was supposed to be Mila Kunis' biggest feature, she has top billing in it, but sorry, due to the on-all-the-time "Family Guy" show, I can only see her as the voice of "Meg" and even here you want to say "Shut up, Meg.
" This effort is tough to rate. It's got great production values but Meg, I mean Mila, and Kate are just junior varsity in this, they don't have the chops, the gravitas to play in the big leagues.
And the film is conflicted in what it wants to be and that falls on junior director/writer Susanna Fogel. At times it's a comedy/parody - mostly when Kate is active, and at others it tries to be a spy drama, featuring a serious Mila.
But she's out of her element, she wants to be a "big girl" ala Angelina Jolie or Famke Janssen but she's just too small and cute, like Sarah Hyland, ha, they could be sisters/cousins. She's a romcom queen, not an action star, and that just poisons the experience.
And it doesn't help that she runs around in soccer mom attire for 90% of the run time. The Powers That Be gave these gals a chance, but it's clear we won't be seeing them losing anymore studio money on their own.
This review of The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018) was written by Eludiumq36 on 23 Oct 2018.
The Spy Who Dumped Me has generally received positive reviews.
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