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Silly yarn that's farcical and comical


So I watched this on a whim and it was entertaining initially with great action and some tension and drama done very well. However, then it descended into cartoon territory tbh with the US Secret Agent, British Secret Agent, German Secret Agent, Spanish Agent and eventually the Chinese Agent.

The bad guys are all cartoony and stupid and silly and the action descended from tense, interesting and done well initially to downright idiotic and stupid.

I think somehow the directors changed after the opening or something else but it was just silly.
And it ends with a lot of needless killing but somehow obviously the family is safe for some reason, everyone everywhere has unbelievable high speed 8K video reception even in a 3rd world nation with cell signals. I mean, I want that ISP/carrier.

And after all that killing when given the chance to kill the bad guy, they balk and hesitate, not once, not twice but more!

And then the final action sequence later, it ends with a stupid song whose lyrics go - "Everyone wants to be her. The boys want to be her, the girls want to be her.". Lol, wut? No, no boys want to be her or girls. I mean it makes no sense.

Overall however, it had action sequences and that's about it. But no one will take anyone seriously when you have thin women taking down bad guys. I mean it is like chopsticks fighting a baton and expecting to win. Makes no sense.

The acting was sub par and everyone is clearly there for the money. No one puts in any effort and everyone is multilingual so fluently.

Anyways, I am done. I rate it 4/10. Not sure why such movies are made. Just make good realistic movies where women do female things and men do male things and they work together to overcome the shortcomings. I'd be happy with that. As a liberal guy, I am sick of unrealistic depictions of people as it takes me out of the movie.

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Yeah honestly I like all these actresses, but the script and, sadly the acting, was sub-par at best. They did absolutely nothing with Cruz's character even when hey could have. The cyber expert defuses the initial confrontation when there's a trained therapist in the room who's used to dealing with agents? The trade-craft, if you can call it that, was totally laughable and the "twists" could be seen a mile away by a blind person. Too bad, coulda been pretty great. Oh and also, it's essentially a remake of the much better "Sneakers."

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