Got to say a good part of the audience look like they were excited to see Cameron Diaz back on the big screen, specially if you are in your 30s you probably saw her on Charlies Angels, its been a while since her last movie and pairing her with Jamie Foxx I knew it was going to be a funny one, yeah the movie seem to be just too formulated, the spy comedy with tons of explosions, the couple that gets haunted by their past trying to build up a life now with kids, I mean there is nothing wrong about but the extreme high expectations that probably the audience had, this is not a blockbuster movie just a movie to kill some time and have a few laughs, you know that type of movie you have in queue for when ever there is nothing else to watch and you just want to relax. Many question if this was the right type of movie for her to come back and I honestly think its fine, at this point in time she is an icon from the early 2000s, two decades ago so yeah its been too long to all of the sudden land a role on a movie like say Dune, come on, lets be realistic.
- IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21191806/
- Platform: NETFLIX
After a good start the movie follows a very predictable and safe formula, from the spy couple who retire in a mysterious way because they having a kid, to life their calm life to having spy blood in their family, its the case of Emily whose mother is an ex MI6, Ginny played by Glen Close is Emily's mother and the one person who can lead them into trying to find the bad guys after them. There is a lot of running around trying to recover that master key that controls power grids, dealing with the bad guys who want revenge to Emily and Matt, and attempting to keep their kids safe while explaining why mom and dad are not just boring suburban parents, all in between this there is a lot of laughs. They made the title try to work both for Cameron Diaz and the movie itself, I would consider it a "soft" come back that work well enough.
Glenn Close steals every scene she is in as Emily's mother Ginny, bringing this perfect mix of British sophistication and deadly spy skills, she came out into the movie in a very precise moment to lift up the characters when they loosing momentum. Jamie Demetriou as her younger boyfriend Nigel also boost the laughs and comedy side, especially during a scene where he has to save London using a laptop and completely freaks out. The kids, played by McKenna Roberts and Rylan Jackson, do their best with what they are given, after all very secondary characters but feel more like plot devices than fully developed people.
As most things in the movie the ending is a very predictable one but at the same time somewhat rushed, after a big chase jumping from boats to bikes, big chase sequence, its thrown in our face that Chuck; played by Kyle Chandler, was actually working with Balthazar Gor, the bad guys, the classic double agent who was planning to use the master key to control power grids all over the world, this is just too much, reminds of Pinky and The Brain type of plan.
To keep the movie very Friends & Family rated, in the final fight Emily and Matt work together with their kids, Alice use her tech skills to hack the facility security, something that always diminish movies is the fake hacking scenes. The family does manage to secure the master key and gave it to the authorities, giving them immunity as they were part of a "non official" CIA reaction team, basically the type of division that doesn't exist so when things go south they were to blame without any connections to the agency.
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