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- 2018
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 57 m
- 2018
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 57 m
Summary 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 f...
Directed By: Susanna Fogel
Written By: David Iserson, Susanna Fogel
- 2018
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 57 m
- 2018
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 57 m
The Spy Who Dumped Me
52
7.3
Where to Watch
Summary 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 f...
Directed By: Susanna Fogel
Written By: David Iserson, Susanna Fogel
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 43 Critic Reviews
52
40% Positive
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
51% Mixed
22 Reviews
22 Reviews
9% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 43 Critic Reviews
52
40% Positive
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
51% Mixed
22 Reviews
22 Reviews
9% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
An innovative genre blend that overcomes its bagginess thanks to sharp character comedy and a wildly appealing central dynamic.
Though the story goes a country too far and gets lost in its dénouement, the movie is, for the most part, a playful and giddy delight.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 196 User Ratings
7.3
62% Positive
121 Ratings
121 Ratings
29% Mixed
56 Ratings
56 Ratings
10% Negative
19 Ratings
19 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 196 User Ratings
7.3
62% Positive
121 Ratings
121 Ratings
29% Mixed
56 Ratings
56 Ratings
10% Negative
19 Ratings
19 Ratings
This movie was so funny! I love the chemistry between Mila Kunis and the hilarious Kate McKinnon. Production companies have discovered the women like action movies too, and I am glad.
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McKinnon’s apparent improvisations and inventions create a second, better movie in the margins.
The Spy Who Dumped Me is no debacle, but it’s an over-the-top and weirdly combustible entertainment, a movie that can’t seem to decide whether it wants to be a light comedy caper or a top-heavy exercise in B-movie mega-violence.
It’s essentially “Romy and Michelle’s Mission Impossible” or “Lucy and Ethel Live and Let Die,” and it’s an easy, awfully disposable two hours that scatters some off-kilter belly laughs among a lot of labored gags and efficiently-shot action movie setpieces.
Kunis and McKinnon don’t exactly set the screen on fire with their chemistry, and there are only the most perfunctory shadings to their characters.
There's an appealingly shaggy buddy comedy hidden somewhere inside of The Spy Who Dumped Me, but good luck finding it amid all the desperate poop jokes, lifeless action sequences, and lazy plot mechanics.
This movie rules and it makes zero sense that it has mediocre reviews. Kate McKinnon is hysterical. There's so many scenes where what she's doing physically absolutely killed me (no spoilers).
I think this is a similar situation to Dumb and Dumber. When that came out, critics were like meh, and that's how we learned that movie critics are completely clueless when it comes to comedy. No idea why the masses also give mediocre reviews, but I have a strong suspicion the reason begins with m.... they're morons.
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This was not bad. I happened to giggle and enjoy it most of the time! I will say there's not much explanation at the end of the movie, which lost me. Who was working for who? Anyways, not a bad watch.
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This movie is better than it deserves to be. It could have been so bad, but it does good with its cast. Everyone in this film does their best to sell it. Unfortunately, the thing they are selling is mediocre. If you replace this cast which has a great chemistry together with some other actors and actresses, this film becomes a solid 4 or 5. Mila and Kate are great together and really sell the best friend aspect of the film. There are a couple of missed jokes in my opinions, a forced love triangle of sorts that lasts three seconds. Not a lot of twists that happen and if, so they are predictable or so random and unpredictable that it just hurts the film in the long run. Still a fun ride for the most part. Pacing is good if only to get to the next fun set piece. Some decent action and running gags. One bit with a CIA agent being very funny and almost genuine. Like they recorded a blooper real in character. The title gives away that Mila has gotten dumped by a spy, for the CIA, and an ex Machina device is found, and Mila and Co. find their way around the world to deliver it to the right hand with many hijinks throughout.
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What is this, another Saturday Night Live production?! Half the cast are washouts from there. I think this was supposed to be Mila Kunis' biggest feature, she has top billing in it, but sorry, due to the on-all-the-time "Family Guy" show, I can only see her as the voice of "Meg" and even here you want to say "Shut up, Meg." This effort is tough to rate. It's got great production values but Meg, I mean Mila, and Kate are just junior varsity in this, they don't have the chops, the gravitas to play in the big leagues. And the film is conflicted in what it wants to be and that falls on junior director/writer Susanna Fogel. At times it's a comedy/parody - mostly when Kate is active, and at others it tries to be a spy drama, featuring a serious Mila. But she's out of her element, she wants to be a "big girl" ala Angelina Jolie or Famke Janssen but she's just too small and cute, like Sarah Hyland, ha, they could be sisters/cousins. She's a romcom queen, not an action star, and that just poisons the experience. And it doesn't help that she runs around in soccer mom attire for 90% of the run time. The Powers That Be gave these gals a chance, but it's clear we won't be seeing them losing anymore studio money on their own.
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This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.
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Production Company
Imagine Entertainment,
Lionsgate Films,
BRON Studios,
Creative Wealth Media Finance,
Studio Babelsberg Motion Pictures
Release Date Aug 3, 2018
Duration 1 h 57 m
Rating R
Tagline Minimum Experience. Maximum Damage.
Awards
Golden Trailer Awards
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
People's Choice Awards, USA
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
ReFrame
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
