Spy 2015 (Movie Review)

Dir: Paul Feig
Starring: Jude Law, Jason Statham, Melissa McCarthy, Rose Byrne
Dur: 2 hrs
Rating: 1/5
Genre: Comedy
PG: Plenty of expletives, groping and vulgar pictures.

I had read reviews about this film that rated fairly well and said that it is hilarious. After watching it, I couldn’t understand what the reviewers saw in it that appealed to them. Spy is a humorous dig at the spy genre. They don’t do a good job of it and end up making a fool of themselves really.

The CIA is shown in really bad light. They are operating in a pest-infested area with personnel who look like they passed out of the mental asylum or thereabouts. Susan Cooper (Melissa McCarthy) is a CIA agent who has spent nearly her whole employment working at a desk in HQ. She is the guide of a wannabe Bond, Bradley Fine (Jude Law) who is compromised on one of his missions. In the ensuing turmoil she offers to get into the field as an active agent to carry on Fine’s work. Her appointment to the mission ticks off a very offensive, apparently top class agent, Rick Ford (Jason Statham). She embarks on her mission and grabs more rope than she is allowed to handle. Very soon, she is operating deep and gets close to the dragon’s heart, which in this case is a young woman, Rayna (Rose Byrne) who is looking to sell a nuclear weapon. I’ll fast forward through all the bungling, goofing and retarded operation, because they are simply not worth the time.


The film is layered with humour that hits below the belt. The script is too verbose and dry. Melissa is at her copulent best cannot help the film fly perhaps because it is so overweight with unnecessary dialogue and cheap humour. Fans of the spy genre, of which I am one, may want to rip the script into shreds and blow the film into no-mans-land because of the awful hand dealt to the spy-world. If you’re looking for spy humour I would recommend Johnny English. Spy is a disgrace and a total waste of time. 

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