Director Paul Feig
Staring Melissa McCarthy, Rose Byrne, Jude Law
Rated MA
Score 2/6

A desk-bound CIA analyst volunteers to go undercover to infiltrate the world of a deadly arms dealer, and prevent diabolical global disaster.

I’m beginning to think that ‘filling out the 5’ according to the rule of 5 on Paul Feig might not be the best of ideas and if I wasn’t such a sucker for cinematic punishment I probably would have avoided the idea entirely.
Personally I feel that the Johnny English movies are the high standard for the satirical ‘spy’ movie. Spy is nowhere near the caliber of the Johnny English movies and I suppose it would have had a lot more potential if it did not have such an identity crisis with its sense of humor Paul Feig seems to kill a perfectly good joke or moment by immediately following it up with an awkward ‘why did you write that?’ joke. If you’re going to go with an awkward sense of humor for your movies Mr. Feig fine, do that, perhaps even embrace it as a trademark of your directing and writing style but please stop killing off innocent fully formed jokes, they deserve to live.
Both Melissa McCarthy and Rose Byrne gave decent enough performance and they both had some nice moments together while Jason Statham proved to be a good comic foil against McCarthy. This was not enough to save the movie and make the kind of thing that I would go back to.