Melissa McCarthy continues to prove she’s a force to be reckoned with in the latest comedy from writer/director Paul Feig, which mixes a genuinely thrilling spy story with filthy farce to delectable effect.
The perennially underestimated McCarthy stars as the perennially underestimated Susan Cooper, a CIA agent whose lack of confidence has seen her regulated to a basement where she acts as the eyes and ears to Jude Law’s super-spy on the field. Law’s Bradley Fine certainly looks (and with his old-school chauvinism, acts) the part, but it’s Cooper who gets him through the sticky situations with her clear-headed satellite guidance.
However, when Fine becomes indisposed and Bulgarian arms dealer Rayna Boyanov (Rose Byrne) reveals she knows the identities of all the other prominent super spies in the CIA (including Jason Statham’s brilliantly bolshy Richard Ford), Cooper decides to leave her desk job, go undercover, and finish the mission. Why? Because nobody could ever suspect she was a spy.
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The perennially underestimated McCarthy stars as the perennially underestimated Susan Cooper, a CIA agent whose lack of confidence has seen her regulated to a basement where she acts as the eyes and ears to Jude Law’s super-spy on the field. Law’s Bradley Fine certainly looks (and with his old-school chauvinism, acts) the part, but it’s Cooper who gets him through the sticky situations with her clear-headed satellite guidance.
However, when Fine becomes indisposed and Bulgarian arms dealer Rayna Boyanov (Rose Byrne) reveals she knows the identities of all the other prominent super spies in the CIA (including Jason Statham’s brilliantly bolshy Richard Ford), Cooper decides to leave her desk job, go undercover, and finish the mission. Why? Because nobody could ever suspect she was a spy.
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