Back in Action
(2025)
Overview
Fifteen years after vanishing from the CIA to start a family, elite spies Matt and Emily jump back into the world of espionage when their cover is blown.
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Reviews
Manuel São Bento
⭐ 2/10January 17, 2025
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"Back in Action would have been more appropriately titled Out of Action. Seth Gordon fails to strike the necessary balance between action, humor, and emotion to stand out in the genre, delivering a highly forgettable, formulaic piece.
Cameron Diaz's return is squandered in a movie that fails to showcase her talent or that of the star-studded cast. The film not only str…
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MovieGuys
⭐ 6/10January 28, 2025
"Back in Action" feels like a bargain basement "True Lies".
Unlike the 1994 action, comedy, spy mash up it shallowly imitates, "Back in Action" offers up nothing fresh or original. That's not to say its unwatchable. As a basic action flick its mildly diverting but, that said, you very quickly come to feel like you have seen it all before, because in one form or another, you have.
In summary, yet another "by the numbers", mass produced, act…
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r96sk
⭐ 6/10February 9, 2025
<em>'Back in Action'</em> is one I found to be a real mixed bag. I think I narrowly didn't like it, though it isn't one I'd explicitly say that I disliked either. Everything about it just kinda levels out at underwhelming. The respective returns of Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz are its selling point.
Both Foxx and Diaz are fairly good, the latter minorly the better of the two. McKenna Roberts and Rylan Jackson are decent as the youngsters, while…
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JPV852
⭐ 7/10April 5, 2026
Not a bad action-comedy, a bit 1990s style but I was entertained mostly for Jamie Foxx and Cameron DIaz. The dialogue still had a tinge of AI that I've noticed in these Netflix movies but still didn't damper the entertainment value. **3.5/5**
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Status
Released
Original Language
EN
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