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Desk-bound CIA analyst Susan Cooper (Melissa McCarthy) longs for both the affection of suave international spy Bradley Fine (Jude Law) and the adrenaline of being in the field. When Fine is murdered while tracking the whereabouts of a tactical nuclear weapon, Cooper sees one of her dreams dashed and the other realized as she heads to Paris, France on a dangerous reconnaissance mission to pick up the trail of the deadly device. Dodging assassins, amorous agents, and rogue operative Rick Ford (Jason Statham), Cooper must go deep undercover to infiltrate the guard of vicious vixen Rayna Boyanov (Rose Byrne), retrieve the bomb, and take revenge for her fallen comrade.
Melissa just lights up the screen. Everyone was funnier because she was in it. She had great bits of comedy with everyone in the movie.Very impressed with Jason Statham's attempt at comedy. It's hard to tell whether he was trying to hard to be funny or purposely hamming it up to make his character over the top, but I'll lean towards the latter cause the results had me dying with laughter as we parodies his own tough guy action hero persona, to the level of cartoon buffoonery. Statham and McCarty together were like a classic sitcom as Statham plays another CIA agent who thinks he's so much better than McCarthy's Susan Cooper that he can't see his own faults. The elegant dealer, Rayna Boyanov, is hilariously played by Rose Byrne who is convincing as one of the main villains in the movie.
The action was pretty outrageous. the fight scenes and car chases were just big enough to complement all the comedy, which was the movies main focus, keeping us laughing.There are memorable action sequences that take place in a kitchen and on a private jet that are incredibly entertaining, and it's not something you see in spoof films. Spy balances the comedy very well and it delivers the action that espionage films have us accustomed to. I had a lot of fun with it. Worth seeing, it's non-stop laughter.
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