Back In Action reunites Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz, who team up for an action-packed adventure after years of retirement. The film follows their undercover CIA agent characters as they navigate a world of espionage, family life, and hilarious misadventures.
is more of a journeyman than either Jeremy Saulnier or Jaume Collet-Serra, the genre-savvy directors of those recent stablemates. But he gets the job done and keeps the wheels spinning, partly by peppering the action with enough vehicular chases and physical clashes to fuel three movies. A bigger factor, however, is the reunion ofAny Given Sunday. Diaz had since retired from acting to focus on her family, until Foxx lured her back to work on this project, her first feature in 11 years.
Gordon winks at the James Bond model in an action-packed opening sequence that introduces undercover CIA operatives Matt and Emily 15 years earlier, not long into their romantic relationship, just as Emily discovers she’s pregnant.) dispatches them to crack the safe of Eastern European terrorist Balthazar Gor and get hold of a master-key capable of crashing or controlling any system in the world.
Jumping ahead to the present, Matt and Emily are living an everyday family life, raising two children — sullen 14-year-old Alice and her brother Leo , who’s 11 — in the squeaky-clean suburbs of an unnamed American city. When one of Alice’s friends posts video of the incident online, Matt and Emily’s cover is blown. Chuck turns up at their door, revealing that the master-key was never recovered from the scene of the plane crash, and if he managed to track them down so easily it won’t be long before Gor’s goon squad does the same.
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