The Spy Who Never Dies

I wasn't familiar with any of the cast in this, however, that's not a bad thing. I wasn't sure what to expect from this move, apart from "Action, Comedy, Romance". Most of it was acted well enough, however, the story felt a little "I will try this and see how it works". There wasn't enough Action or Comedy, the potential was there though. Perhaps the director (Corey Pearson) will get more confident with experience. I would recommend this.

Grab some popcorn and have some fun. This is a medium lower budget flick that is not a 'joke' of a movie. There is some action, some comedy that was put together well enough to actually watch.

For its moderately lower budget, its worth a watch and I rate it a 5.

Well done overall. It's not a serious movie, it's the spy equivalent of Scary Movie. It's a parody of spy movies. If you're up for people making semi-serious fun of outrageous spy movies, this is it. It comes off as the modern version of some of the Leslie Nielsen movies.

As I sat down to watch the 2022 action comedy "The Spy Who Never Dies", I must admit that I was expecting a bit more than what writer and director Corey Pearson actually managed to deliver here. Sure, I hadn't heard about the movie prior to watching it, but the movie's cover/poster and synopsis seemed interesting enough. And action comedies with a spy theme has been good in the past, so I figured why not.

"The Spy Who Never Dies" felt like a missed opportunity, because there was next to no comedy throughout the course of the movie. And that was a shame, because there were definitely lots of opportunity to incorporate comedy situations into the storyline. And the movie never really goes full out into action mode either, so you are left with a somewhat watered down action movie.

The movie has good performances from its cast ensemble, despite of the script and storyline not actually being the best of source material. I wasn't familiar with the cast in the movie, but I liked and enjoyed their performances. Especially Hafedh Dakhlaoui (playing The Dog Walker) and Ana Thu Nguyen (playing Lollypop) stood out as the most memorable of characters and performances.

There is a good pacing to the storyline and a fair amount of action actually. But without an overly entertaining storyline, then there was just so much that it could do for the movie.

My rating of "The Spy Who Never Dies" lands on a four out of ten stars.

Parodies are never works of art. That being said, if you have seen a lot of Spy-movies you will like (like, not love) this one.

It is not over the top like Leslie Nielsen or Mel Brooks, it stays closer to being real. I loved how the main character is super-confident all the time, the load of gadgets and how every idiotic situation is taken seriously.

Actually pretty decent fighting scenes.

Of course the dialogues could be better. Also a lot of fast talking so unintelligible from time to time. Perhaps too many characters who looked alike, rather confusing.

But if you are up for some fun and don't mind too much it is not always professional give it a go, trust me ;-)