Movie review the spy who dumped me

The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018)
R | 117 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

By Rico

🎥 The Spy Who Dumped Me

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🎬Director: Susanna Fogel

If you’ve loved ❤ movies that have two strong female characters that are connected by friendship, much like classics such as ‘Thelma and Louise’, then you will love this film. The Spy Who Dumped Me is an action comedy but it is also a movie that celebrates female friendships. Audrey (Mila Kunis) and Morgan (Kate McKinnon), two thirty-year-old best friends in Los Angeles, are thrust unexpectedly into an international conspiracy when Audrey’s ex-boyfriend shows up at their apartment with a team of deadly assassins on his trail. Surprising even themselves, the duo jump into action, on the run throughout Europe from assassins and a suspicious-but-charming British agent, as they hatch a plan to save the world.

The movie relies on the style of a classic spy film, and borrows heavily from the likes of Bond, Bourne and Mission Impossible. Where it does justice are the characters that Kunis and McKinnon play. Visually, the movie looks rather good, and its action sequences are spectacular. In the same vein as Paul Feig’s Spy, the action and the comedy interplay in fun ways, heightening each other. But way more so than most movies in this genre, the character development and relationship dynamics are so strong, dimensional, moving.

As best friends Audrey and Morgan, Kunis and McKinnon have a sparkling screen chemistry and the rhythmical pit-a-patter of their dialogue is a great to watch. They crackle with a magical energy, McKinnon especially, who seems to hit the perfect note on every joke. So, there’s not much that’s wrong about the movie, except that The Spy Who Dumped Me is oddly excessively violent, which also what keeps the tone from being more consistent — Fogel doesn’t balance that hand-off with enough finesse. The good intentions are there but the execution is lacking.

CAST

Mila Kunis
Audrey

Sam Heughan
Sebastian Henshaw

Kate McKinnon
Morgan

Justin Theroux

Ivanna Sakhno

Gillian Anderson

Kev Adams

Hasan Minhaj

Rating

44%
Rotten Tomatoes
6.4/10
IMDb
4/5
Common Sense Media
87% liked this film
Google users

HmB 7/10⭐