This was one movie which, oddly enough, I have not seen its trailer at all. There was no information when it would play in Indonesian theater (not even from the biggest movie database website), so it was surprising that the film suddenly premiered on Wednesday. It was even stranger when I found out that the movie only playing in 1 cinema chain (albeit the largest one). Since I saw another movie on its premiere day, my wife and I saw this one on the 2nd day in the nearest cinema to our home. So let us go into the movies now.
Brief Story Line
Audrey (Mila Kunis - Bad Moms, Oz the Great and Powerful etc) was just a normal woman who was feeling bad for herself after being dumped by her boyfriend Drew (Justin Theroux - The Lego Ninjago Movie, Mulholland Drive etc). Audrey's best friend Morgan (Kate McKinnon - Ghostbusters, Ferdinand etc) who was a carefree but rather goofball person was always trying to cheer her up. Their normal life would suddenly be changed when they were informed by CIA agents Sebastian (Sam Heughan - Outlander TV series) and Duffer (Comedian Hasan Minhaj) that Drew was actually a spy.
Things really fell apart when it would appear that there were bad guys and the CIA themselves all looking for Drew and they thought that Audrey would be the one leading them to him. After a major incident, Audrey and Morgan were all caught up in the crossfire of all the parties looking for Drew. With an assassin (Ivanna Sakhno) hot on their trail, they had to use all their wits and go across Europe to escape from the chase and find out what exactly was both CIA and bad guys intention.
So could these two women escape and save themselves? Find them all in this hilarious action comedy movie.
End of Brief Story Line
Well this movie was a lot more fun that I anticipated. First I thought that the comedy would be just so so or only glimpses of them. But apparently the film was filled with so many hilarious moments. The comedic and rather absurd situations they were in and sometimes because of themselves were always fun to watch. Sometimes the fun stuff also came from the conversation they had or the comments Morgan made on Audrey which was really spot on. There were so many hilarious scenes in the movie but my most favorite one was the chasing sequence in the roads of Vienna and also the library scene (which made my wife could not stop laughing). And most of the audience in our studio were really enjoying themselves as we were laughing throughout the whole movie.
The film also had some unexpectedly good action sequence, particularly the fight & car chase scenes which I thought was done nicely and professionally. The director Susanna Fogel previously directed a comedy & drama movie, so it was nice to she that she was able to make the action scenes very good. The movie was quite old school in the action part and did not use too much computer for their special effects. While the sound effects were pretty decent for such movie.
The main attraction for this movie was definitely the 2 lead stars Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon who had good chemistry & quite convincing as two best friends. While Mila's character Audrey was what you could expect from her, but Kate I think truly excelled in her role. She looked really natural as the person who does not seem to think ahead and just go with her heart. There were also few supporting cast that made the movie more complete such as Gillian Anderson (Agent Scully of The X-Files TV series) as CIA boss, Paul Reiser (My Two Dads & Mad About You TV series) and Jane Curtin (3rd Rock From The Sun TV series) as Morgan's parents.
Overall this movie was really a fun movie to see and enjoyed. This should not be compared to the serious spy movie like James Bond (although the title was a bit like one of its movie: The Spy Who Loved Me) or the more recent one like Mission: Impossible series. I actually felt that the movie had some similarities with another very funny 2015 action comedy movie titled Spy starring Melissa McCarthy. This film may not have the most original story/plot but it certainly gave me & my wife a bunch of laughter, making us feeling very happy after leaving the theater.
With a duration of almost 2 hours, the movie did not feel too long. In fact I think it's just nice as the story did not feel rushed to complete and we were given plenty of hilarious scenes with some nice action sequence. During the end credit scene, there were few funny scenes that you could enjoy but there was no such scene at all after it was complete. So if you are looking just pure fun without overthinking of the plot, then this one would do nicely. But if you are looking for some serious spy stuff or prefer the full action movie, then better find some other movies to fill your time. The choice is yours.
Happy watching!
Mike's movie moments rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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