Spy (2015) Film Review

Spy Film Review

"Susan Cooper (Melissa McCarthy) is an unassuming, deskbound CIA analyst, and the unsung hero behind the Agency's most dangerous missions. But when her partner (Jude Law) falls off the grid and another top agent (Jason Statham) is compromised, she volunteers to go deep undercover to infiltrate the world of a deadly arms dealer, and prevent a global disaster." © Fox

Spy is a gripping comedy, it appears to be a serious film in the introduction, until Jude Law (the spy) accidentally sneezed and shot a person with important information regarding the location of a hidden bomb, to be sold on the black market.

Jude Law accidentally shooting the only person known to have any knowledge about the location of a bomb.

After the first scene the film focuses on Susan Cooper, the "unassuming, desk bound CIA analyst". She is frowned upon by her bosses, and is regarded as foolish and unimportant, but Jude was killed whilst on a mission. The 'bad guy' knows all of the field agents identity, so they need someone to replace him who is not on the radar, so Susan is picked to participate in a field mission.

Susan seems to really do well as a field agent, and impresses her boss who used to look down upon her as just a boring, and uneducated office worker. Susan blended in well and gathered some precious details regarding the position of a bomb, that was planned to be used to wipe out the whole of New York off of the map.

The film is directed, and written by Paul Feig, who 
showed some impressive skills on this film, with a gripping story line, but it lacked a proper indepth view of anything, often making me wonder what could of happened, or how does that work?

I found it weird that the film uses such explicit language, and has such childish jokes, the whole film seems like a family film but with the addition of some swearing. Funnily enough the film poster has a childish finish to it, with a middle aged women in the air in a karate position. 

The shots used were beautiful, with some nice aerial clips. Overall the film was very watchable because of its frequent use of well executed shots, and superb timing. 

I personally enjoyed the film, because of its wittiness, but I can see other viewers potentially annoyed abut the frequent use of bad jokes, and slapstick. 

The film has many famous actors, such as Melissa McCarthy (often plays middle aged, crazy woman), Jason Statham (usually a serious spy, or criminal, with a change in this film with his sarcastic approach), and Miranda Hart. All of the actors performed to a very high standard and allowed the audience to sit down and watch it easily. I would probably call the film the film version of a easy read!

Spy has not currently won any awards, although it is a new release and the film just might have some awards coming its way.

Overall I enjoyed the film thoroughly, although it was a bit cheesy at times, making it hard to take some of the dramatic parts serious. The film seems like it was made for children, but the explicit language used suggests that it is targeted at mature audiences. But overall the film was interesting and worth watching, but I would not recommend going to the cinema to see the film, because it a bit too standard compared to some of the big box office names.


Official Spy Trailer