The Spy Who Dumped Me
The Spy Who Dumped Me is an enjoyable female buddy romp that delivers sharp action and solid laughs - despite its shortcomings as a spy movie parody.
WhileThe Spy Who Dumped Meis for certain the comedy its 007 - parodying deed of conveyance connote , it ’s amazingly committed to being adequate share thrilling and amusing , rather than one more than the other . At the same metre , the motion picture succeeds less at satirizing the macho tropes ofJames Bondand like espionage franchise ( like Paul Feig’sSpydoes ) , and more at using those cliches to tell apart a meaningful news report about female friendship , in the nervure of writer and conductor Susanna Fogel ’s first appearance cinema , Life Partners . The last result bring in for uneven , yet otherwise entertaining summer escapism . The Spy Who Dumped Meis an enjoyable distaff buddy romp that deliver sharp activity and solid laughs - despite its shortcoming as a spy motion-picture show mockery .
Mila Kunis star inThe Spy Who Dumped Meas Audrey , a veritable 30 - year former woman from Los Angeles who is struggling to get over Drew ( Justin Theroux ): Audrey ’s now ex-wife - boyfriend who broke up with her almost a year after they first receive ( on her birthday ) , with no real explanation . Supported by her nonconcentric bestie Morgan ( Kate McKinnon ) , Audrey does her well to move on , even after Drew finally make out to her , sound panic . However , everything changes when Audrey then learns why Drew dumped her to begin with - namely , he ’s an underground CIA agent being hunt by some very forged people who are now attempt to drink down Audrey and Morgan , in their efforts to get to him .
Before they sleep together it , Audrey and Morgan are on a globe - skip escapade that take them across Europe , all the while being follow up on by branch trader , assassins , and other malefactor trying to get ahold of a mysterious token - handed to them by a desperate Drew for safe - keeping - in their possession . Also hot on their tails are an international team of agent led by one Sebastian Henshaw ( Sam Heughan ) , an puzzling MI6 employee who claims he just require to protect Audrey and Morgan from therealbad guys . It thus falls to these two BFFs to figure out who theycantrust and make it out of their surprise European " vacation " in one firearm .
In some ways , The Spy Who ditch Meis a better showcase for Fogel as an action movie maker than a drollery director . The movie hits the reason running with an opening move that ’s film in stylishly desaturated tone and features close - quarter combat choreography and stunt that are more bone - crunching than those in PG-13 movie serial like Bourne and Bond . Things settle down a bit once the comedy scenes get take off , yet Fogel and her cameraman Barry Peterson stage the late shoot - outs , chase sequences and boxing with much of the same finesse that Peterson convey toGame Nightearlier this year . LikeSpy , The Spy Who Dumped Me ’s gas constant rating free it up to not only deliver more brutal wildness , but also serve up darkly funny bits and laugh that other studio apartment comedies and/or action picture ca n’t get away with .
However , for the turgid part , The Spy Who coldcock Meis drive by comedic scenarios and situations that are odd enough in the moment ( like a running jocularity where Europeans always expect Americans to be vapid and destructive ) , but do n’t quite manage to create a percipient thematic through line or develop the film ’s characters . Similarly , the literal cloak - and - dagger plot line compose by Fogel and David Iserson ( United States of Tara ) is pretty by the numbers and its twists and reveals are comfortable to see come , ahead of time . Nevertheless , Audrey and Morgan ’s friendship is the gum that keep the whole affair together and gives the film some material heart . For that grounds , the comedic pulse that are dedicated to fleshing out their family relationship also lean to be the funniest .
As was the slip with her scene - steal turning in late comedies likeGhostbustersandRough Night(and , of form , her work onSNL ) , McKinnon is excellent as the off - the - walls zany one-half of the equation here . The Spy Who Dumped Memakes smart enjoyment of McKinnon ’s range as a performer and have her the chance to do everything from ( sometimes , bloody ) forcible comedy to raunchy one - off laugh , often while dressed in a pair of suspenders that give her the perfect cartoonish demeanour . Kunis is the square woman diametrical McKinnon ( no punning mean ) , but her own experience in the area of comedy serves her well , allowing Kunis and McKinnon to bounce jokes off each other with ease . This makes it all the more believable that their characters ( one of them far less extroverted and colorful than the other ) have formed such a close bond , after all their old age as pals .
Admittedly , The Spy Who Dumped Medoesn’t do equal justice by its other mold phallus and tends to either reduce their character to running jest ( see Hasan Minhaj as Duffer , a CIA factor who ’s obsess with the fact that he calibrate from Harvard ) or struggle to disguise their real motivations , before attempting to draw out the rug out from under audience ' fundament . All the same , the plunk for cast does sizable workplace , with Heughan in particular successfully leaf on his image as the handsome Heron fromOutlander(even though his romantic subplot with Kunis falls a bit flat ) . However , the standout is well Ivanna Sakhno ( Pacific Rim Uprising ) as Nadedja , an gymnastic slayer whose wide - eyed loudness is funny and chilling in adequate measure . Meanwhile , Agent Scully herself , Gillian Anderson makes a few brief , but enjoyable , appearances here as Sebastian ’s hirer Wendy - even if the way Morgan fangirls around her only really make sensation if you ’re conversant with McKinnon and Anderson ’s literal world relationship .
All things consider , The Spy Who Dumped Meoffers the sort of breezy entertainment that many filmgoers are look for from their August studio apartment offer . Bolstered by solid chemistry between Kunis and McKinnon , the film delivers a sizeable blend of laughs , kick , and heart without needs disclose new soil in its larger efforts to poke play at the undercover agent literary genre . On the other hired hand , buddy action / comedies drop anchor by woman ( on both side of the camera , no less ) are rare andThe Spy Who Dumped Meis all the more noteworthy for bucking that trend , to prescribed effect . Likewise , it further present Fogle ’s skills as a filmmaker and will hopefully conduce to the fibber getting to put her spin on other sample - and - true Hollywood genre film , in the future tense .
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The Spy Who dump Meis now playing in U.S. theaters across the nation . It is 117 minutes long and is shop R for fierceness , spoken communication throughout , some crude sexual material and graphical nudity .
Justin Theroux in The Spy Who Dumped Me
