Well, it wasn't slow. That the best thing I could say about this attempted buddy-spy-spoof that is all shouting, cliche and non-stop movement. Someone needs to tell the filmmakers that when you present a line, sight gag or incongruity that is supposed to elicit laughter or any kind of reaction from the audience, you must give it at least five seconds to register. You don't get a nanosecond here. Thus potentially funny lines by the leads, assassins, an abducted cab driver, etc., are scattered by a hurricane withut being seen or heard. The main characters try hard to be pitiable and part of this may well be a generation gap thing. I can pity main characters who are themselves caricatures of nasty, selfish people who are supposed to be our heroes. Kunis shouts all the time while being frenetic and clueless.. No balance here as McKinnon's character is a know-it-all who makes no sense whatsoever. The violence is of the bang-bang variety, nothing gruesome thank goodness but continually tedious.
After an hour, I asked myself why am I still watching this. I said well I wanted to see it and got the disk from the library so let's see it to the end. That said, I did put away some laundry during the rest of the movie which seemed to make it a bit less stultifying. The characters played video games in the beginning and it made me want to go out and play one myself, something I haven't done since Tomb Raider was new and before the first Tomb Raider movie came out.
Like I said, I'm in my sixties and from what I've observed in stand-up and TV, this nastiness, sarcasm, exaggeration thing seems to pass for humor these days so perhaps the generation it's made for may find it funny. If so, God bless them - I don't want to spoil their fun. To people my age, just watch the Spy Who Loved me or In Like Flint instead. For those my age who didn't like either of those two, STAY AWAY entirely.
After an hour, I asked myself why am I still watching this. I said well I wanted to see it and got the disk from the library so let's see it to the end. That said, I did put away some laundry during the rest of the movie which seemed to make it a bit less stultifying. The characters played video games in the beginning and it made me want to go out and play one myself, something I haven't done since Tomb Raider was new and before the first Tomb Raider movie came out.
Like I said, I'm in my sixties and from what I've observed in stand-up and TV, this nastiness, sarcasm, exaggeration thing seems to pass for humor these days so perhaps the generation it's made for may find it funny. If so, God bless them - I don't want to spoil their fun. To people my age, just watch the Spy Who Loved me or In Like Flint instead. For those my age who didn't like either of those two, STAY AWAY entirely.