An average movie

To be honest, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since it was starring Mila Kunis, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, the concept might have seemed to be too lame and/or idiotic for my taste and, yet, it could have worked though. Indeed, Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon were both pretty good and they had a nice chemistry together. Unfortunately, pretty much nothing else did work in this movie, I’m afraid. Indeed, all the other characters were barely entertaining but, above all, they never really nailed the tone. Indeed, if they would have gone for either a dark comedy or something really daft, I think it could have been pretty neat after all. Unfortunately, they went for some weird mix of standard comedy with standard action stuff and this mix was just misguided and, above all, barely entertaining. I understand that, since it was a movie dealing with spies, some people had to get killed, sometimes even by their own hand, but it was just weird how unfazed the characters seemed to react to this experience. Basically, how can you make something funny about a job which implies that people (innocent or not) will violently die in the process? I’m not saying it’s impossible but it’s definitely a challenge and, in this area, this movie failed miserably. Concerning the rest of the cast, I think I read somewhere that Sam Heughan was a possible candidate to play James Bond at some point but it is now clear that this guy definitely wouldn’t have what it takes to play this iconic character. The fact that this movie was too long probably didn’t help either. Seriously, there is no way that this concept or this specific movie needed almost 2 hrs of running time. Anyway, to conclude, I really didn’t care much about the damned thing after all and I don’t think it is really worth a look.