My Spy: The Eternal City 2024 by AverageMansReviews

My Spy: The Eternal City 2024 by AverageMansReviews

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Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful effects/terrorism/shooting/stabbing/burning/electrocution/bodily functions/impairing/torture/references to only functions, Russia and sexism

Let's just get through this shall we: briefly; JJ/other name [Dave Batista:] he still works for the CIA, but nowadays you can find him being behind screens such as being a computer analyst; Sophie [Chloe Coleman:] she has hit the awkward teenager years, she would like to go away with the school for a choir competition in Italy, JJ puts himself forward to be a chaperone and at some point they will find themselves in a mission.

Generally speaking: the script: well... it is a steaming pile of garbage: you may as well fast-forward the first roughly 39 minutes not a lot happens, as a character development is designed to focus on essentially Sophie coming-of-age and JJ really struggling with that and the direction of his own life. But to be brutally honest it is only until much later on that we have some kind of resolution. I mean away from this garbage, we do have a mission unfolding at some point, but because of this really painful script and don't even get me started on the framework and pacing of this 113 minutes film; as I have already illustrated; this film does take ages upon ages to get going and even when it does get going, I wouldn't blame you if you completely forgotten how or what we saw get here.

Action, comedy and art: Because the action and/or comedy is the kind of things you would broadly expect like chasing, escaping and guns  and likewise we have the comedy level to complement that; with JJ rumbling this party going on with these high school children/choir: but also protecting them from the real bed check, so one minute we have this chaotic parties scene and the next moment we have JJ being the maestro so this choir can seemingly get in some rehearsal time, there is this escaping sequence of these characters under JJ's watch; it has been given the presentation of him waiting for them, but you can see them going cross the outside window and we even have a reference to oral sex [which obviously I cannot disclose here,] but I know it is lowbrow but it is the only time I laughed. The action sequences including artistic temperament I can give praise to is this underwater sequence near to the end of the film; let's be honest here and say it is by far the best sequence of events that this film has the offer, as the concept may be a relatively easy and straightforward outlay, but it is clear to seeing this they really did pull out all the stops to make this sequence the best that they could put out.

Character developments and performances; these character types as you may have guessed already are of a bog standard level as I have already alluded to from earlier. Okay usually I wouldn't be perhaps this harsh, but in this case what with the performances putting in a solidly good performance from: David Kim [Ken Jeong:] he is the head of Covert Operations for the CIA and  [Kristen Schaal:] she is a computer analyst for the CIA. But for the rest on top of the script and etc, these performances feel and look like as if we are just going through the motions here, but if this is what they were going for here? Well done to them they have struck gold.

This film receives: 3/10, this film is poor; this is one of occasions where you just have to say Wow that was an experience... Which I would like to never repeat again hopefully; it was really tiresome and hard work to watch and finally yes there are some extra bits and pieces in the closing credits