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Week of November 2, 2018
Hidden cameras bring out the hypocrisy in
us all. First up...
The Spy Who Dumped Me
The easiest way to tell you’re dating a spy
is if they interrogate you during sex.
Sadly, the dumpee in this action-comedy
won’t have a light shone in her face any longer.
Dumped by her globetrotting boyfriend
(Justin Theroux), Audrey (Mila Kunis) and her friend (Kate McKinnon) go to his
house to trash it but are interrupted by armed man. Now aware that he’s a spy -
and in possession of a desirable flash-drive - the women fly to Europe to
return the Intel. But when he goes missing the friends must then trust is his
CIA partner (Sam Heughan).
Featuring some of the worst jokes ever
written, yet riddled with some brilliant bursts of rapid-fire violence, this
buddy-comedy is quiet the dichotomy. Nevertheless this contrast is too
distracting and both leads are annoying.
Besides, who wouldn’t date a spy? You get
to taste all of their meals for poison.
Red Light
The Darkest Minds
Teenagers already wield the greatest
superpower around: they cannot be tried as adults.
However, the special abilities the teens in
this sci-fi movie have don’t vanish at eighteen.
When a disease wipes out most of the
world’s underage population, it leaves the survivors with strange new talents
that the government colour code per individual powers. But when Ruby (Amandla
Stenberg) registers as an orange, her power to possess minds makes her highly
sought-after by a subversive group leader (Mandy Moore). Luckily Ruby has
friends to help make the right choice.
Boasting clichéd superpowers, pointless
musical montages and a love triangle that dominates the majority of the story,
this adaptation of the similarly named YA novel is the last vestige of the
dystopian teen genre. Unfortunately, it does little to reignite any interest in
the tired concept.
Incidentally, the easiest way to defeat any
super-powered teenager is by giving them mono.
Red Light
***Super Manniversary***
My Super Ex-Girlfriend
The problem with dating a superhero is that
they always have to ‘save the world’ right before the check arrives.
Being stiffed with the bill however is just
another reason why the civilian in this comedy dumped his super-girlfriend.
When Matt (Luke Wilson) apprehends her
mugger, Jenny (Uma Thurman) agrees to go out with him. However, her
mild-mannered nature is a ruse to cover-up for the fact that she is really the
confident superhero: G-Girl. Turned off by her controlling temperament, Matt
dumps Jenny, who then uses her extraordinary abilities to humiliate him and his
new girlfriend (Anna Faris).
While the premise is primed for riffing,
this Ivan Reitmen directed satire is unable to deliver laughs at lightning
speed. Instead the lazy script suffers from cheap, sexist jokes that make the
female antagonist appear desperate and unhinged.
Incidentally, most super-human
relationships fail because someone had sex with the other’s teenage sidekick.
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