Netflix has released a new original movie that has immediately rocketed to #1 on the service, but is Back in Action with Cameron Diaz worth watching?
Er, OK. That’s how former secret agent Matt (Jamie Foxx) explains that he and wife Emily are now living a boring, mundane, glamour-free life and nobody
"Back in Action" is Cameron Diaz's first film in over ten years. Unfortunately, her and Jamie Foxx's star power isn't enough to save it.
Her new Netflix movie, 'Back in Action,' isn't great. But if it means there’s more Cameron Diaz in our future, let’s take it.
Back in Action stars Foxx and Diaz as former CIA spies Matt and Emily, "Years after giving up life as CIA spies to start a family, Emily and Matt find themselves dragged back into the world of espionage when their cover is blown," an official synopsis explains.
The actors had each other’s backs as she returned to the screen and he recovered from a stroke, according to director Seth Gordon.
“Back in Action” is Diaz’s first film since 2014’s “Annie,” which she also starred in alongside Foxx. The Oscar-winner and the “Charlie’s Angels” alum first worked together in Oliver Stone’s 1999 sports drama “Any Given Sunday.”
As married CIA operatives who dropped out and have to come back, Foxx and Diaz anchor a Netflix product-of-the-week movie where nothing's at stake.
Despite some illogical moments, Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx's performances make "Back in Action" an enjoyable family film.
As “Back in Action” goes through its paces, you’ll find echoes of such films as the Bob Odenkirk-starring “Nobody” and the Mark Wahlberg vehicle “The Family Plan,” as well as “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” and even a little of “Knight and Day,” which starred Diaz and that Tom Cruise fella.
Jamie Foxx hyped Cameron Diaz up on the set of Netflix's "Back in Action," her first film in more than a decade after she retired from Hollywood.