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>>> Spy

SPY Rating: NNNN 

Where to watch: iTunes


Paul Feig and Melissa McCarthy’s Spy is more or less what you’d expect when the director of Bridesmaids and his breakout star decide to tackle an action movie. It’s funny and smart, and even legitimately exciting at a couple of points.

McCarthy stars as Susan Cooper, a CIA handler who goes into the field when the high-level agents are compromised. While the people around her don’t take her seriously, the movie does: she’s smart and capable enough to hold her own in a fight, but a decade behind a desk has also given her a strategic savvy that her more reckless colleagues (among them a perfectly pissy Jason Statham) are missing.

The plot gets a little wobbly as Susan bounces around Europe, but the set pieces are energetic and occasionally jaw-dropping. There’s a hand-to-hand battle between McCarthy and Nargis Fakhri in a restaurant kitchen that’s as good as anything the Bond movies have produced, and also funnier.

And unlike in her last film with Feig, The Heat, McCarthy’s not working alone Feig surrounds her with gifted comic performers like Rose Byrne (who kinda deserves an Oscar nomination for her deadpan turn as a ruthless arms dealer), Peter Serafinowicz, Bobby Cannavale and Call The Midwife’s Miranda Hart.

This is an awful lot of fun. Don’t wait for the DVD see it with a crowd. 120 minutes.    

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