My wife was picking movies to watch and she asked me if this one would be alright, and I enthusiastically said sure. So what I got for that sure was a movie that started to catch my attention and be somewhat humorous, but then kept going to the point it is the same length as a James Bond film with just as many twists and turns and it becomes less funny as it continues to move forward. Basically, it had an alright concept, but just continued to go on too long making it less and less entertaining as the reason I was enjoying it was the two friends barely making it out of scrapes, not them suddenly becoming badass and upstaging actual spies with years and years of service.
The story has a woman dumped by her boyfriend and as in the title he was a spy. Well, his stuff is still at her and her roommates house and there is something of great importance in his stuff. She soon finds herself being hunted by a multitude of spies and CIA agents as they try to evade capture and deliver the package to the hands of someone in Vienna, Austria.
Mila Kunis and the person playing her best friend are good at first as they do not seem to know what is going on and survival seems like a long shot. However, after they get captured and tortured by the weird gymnast assassin the movie is all downhill to me as it begins running long and too many illogical twists as I am sure an agency would have their agents well vetted and in all likelihood know if one of their agents is working for the other side. That and the girls all of a sudden know how to fight and disguise themselves and such and become almost like agents with no training really drained the comedy from this one.
So, this film had its moments as it was at its funniest when the girls were running from the multitude of agents and such. The funniest part for me the part where they try to commandeer a car only to learn it is a stick. The problem started occurring when the film felt like it had gone on enough and then it kept going, this is a comedy, to me super long comedies become less funny as the edge begins to wear off and I found that the case with this film. Trim about 20 minutes from it and end it more realistically and it might have merited a higher score from me.
The story has a woman dumped by her boyfriend and as in the title he was a spy. Well, his stuff is still at her and her roommates house and there is something of great importance in his stuff. She soon finds herself being hunted by a multitude of spies and CIA agents as they try to evade capture and deliver the package to the hands of someone in Vienna, Austria.
Mila Kunis and the person playing her best friend are good at first as they do not seem to know what is going on and survival seems like a long shot. However, after they get captured and tortured by the weird gymnast assassin the movie is all downhill to me as it begins running long and too many illogical twists as I am sure an agency would have their agents well vetted and in all likelihood know if one of their agents is working for the other side. That and the girls all of a sudden know how to fight and disguise themselves and such and become almost like agents with no training really drained the comedy from this one.
So, this film had its moments as it was at its funniest when the girls were running from the multitude of agents and such. The funniest part for me the part where they try to commandeer a car only to learn it is a stick. The problem started occurring when the film felt like it had gone on enough and then it kept going, this is a comedy, to me super long comedies become less funny as the edge begins to wear off and I found that the case with this film. Trim about 20 minutes from it and end it more realistically and it might have merited a higher score from me.