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Once again, we are faced with a simple movie from a streaming service that features well-known actors. While it may lack original ideas and intricate plot details, the film surprisingly achieves what it sets out to do: entertain the audience.

One of the strengths of this film lies in its abundance of amusing characters and the jokes they deliver. These elements are not only sufficient but often exceed what is necessary to ensure a pleasurable viewing experience. It's important to approach such films with the right mindset-one of lowered expectations. When you don't anticipate groundbreaking storytelling or innovative concepts, the film manages to pleasantly surprise you and leave you with a sense of enjoyment and positive emotion.

So, if you're in the mood for a film that doesn't demand much of your attention but still brings a smile to your face, this might just be the right choice.

It's a predictable, bad and a boring movie.

I've just wasted my time with another boring Netflix movie.

I love Cameron Diaz but it still is not enough to like this movie.

What's this obsession with secret agent married couples with children running away from the bad guys? It's all the same!

I don't even remember the last time Hollywood made a proper comedy or action movie. I keep watching movies from the 80s, 90s and 2000s.

Please Netflix no more so called "action-comedy"!

I am this close to cancel my subscription.

Maybe it's not just Netflix, the problem with Hollywood as a whole. Hollywood is on a big decline.

Diaz and Fox together with Glenn Close as Diaz's English mom, certainly make for a star studies cast, but that's prob where most people's reviews will stop. The film is not to be taken seriously and it's not going to win any awards, but it's a family, light hearted spy film that doesn't actually try to take itself seriously. The dialogue is corny at times and the acting is straight out of low budget action movies as is the plot, but if you want something to watch where you won't have to use any brain power whatsoever it's not that bad. There is enough action and stunts to keep the interest of most action movie officianardos, with Diaz and Fox playing two spies and obviously having martial arts skills. It does drop off a little around 3/4 the way through but picks up again towards the end. Decent enough watch.

If you don't like super exaggerated action scenes just skip this one as that is exactly what you will get. I wouldn't say it's my favourite genre either but sometimes it passes if it's well made. And it is well made, with nicely choreographed fighting scenes, plenty of action scenes and decent acting. Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx work well together. Maybe it could have used more humour, that part was just average, but in the popcorn movie genre it works. Spies that can take out everybody, solve all the problems as it was the easiest thing to do, that you can only see in these kind of movies. In real life they both would be dead and buried.

A couple are convinced to come out of retirement, after their new life and cover is blown.

It's teetering on being one of those movies that's so bad, it happens to be fun. It's nonsense, sheer, total and utter nonsense, but I watched it from start to finish, and didn't get bored.

Everything was over the top, the fact that the couple didn't age at all after fifteen years, the shoot out scenes, the annoying children.

There was a hint of Johnny English about it, nonsensical sci fi, gadgets and gizmos, ridiculous shoot em up scenes, it did make me laugh a couple of times, the stereotypes were pretty funny.

You go for two wonderfully over the top English characters, and neither are English, that made me laugh, and think of Murder, she wrote, Glenn Close and Andrew Scott doing wonderfully, plummy English accents.

I rather liked Nigel, a bumbling British agent, who could have been lifted out of a spoof from the early 2000's, Jamie Demetriou was amusing.

One issue though, Americans poking fun at British food.....hand me the sugar, colourings and trans fats.

Fun, nonsense.

6/10.