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If you don't like super exaggerated action scenes just skip this one as that is exactly what you will get. I wouldn't say it's my favourite genre either but sometimes it passes if it's well made. And it is well made, with nicely choreographed fighting scenes, plenty of action scenes and decent acting. Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx work well together. Maybe it could have used more humour, that part was just average, but in the popcorn movie genre it works. Spies that can take out everybody, solve all the problems as it was the easiest thing to do, that you can only see in these kind of movies. In real life they both would be dead and buried.

Netflix delivers yet another star-studded cast: Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz are reason enough to hit play, and Andrew Scott, though appearing briefly, adds a touch of charm to the mix. However, even the brightest cast can't save a film when the script falls short - and here, it certainly does.

After watching, I was left with a strange sense of something missing. There's too little of everything: not enough jokes to make you laugh out loud, not enough action to keep you on the edge of your seat, and not enough intrigue to maintain interest. Netflix, which has recently been surprising us with quality projects like Carry On, seems to have taken a step back this time.

Is Back in Action the perfect choice for a cozy evening on the couch with some snacks? Absolutely. But will it be something you'll remember or want to revisit in the future? Definitely not. It's the kind of movie made to entertain you once - and that's it.

Verdict: If you're looking for a light film that doesn't demand much from you, Back in Action is a solid choice. But if you want something more memorable, you might want to check out a different title. Enjoy the show!

It's a predictable, bad and a boring movie.

I've just wasted my time with another boring Netflix movie.

I love Cameron Diaz but it still is not enough to like this movie.

What's this obsession with secret agent married couples with children running away from the bad guys? It's all the same!

I don't even remember the last time Hollywood made a proper comedy or action movie. I keep watching movies from the 80s, 90s and 2000s.

Please Netflix no more so called "action-comedy"!

I am this close to cancel my subscription.

Maybe it's not just Netflix, the problem with Hollywood as a whole. Hollywood is on a big decline.

It's the kind of movie that not everyone will like, but deep down it hides a simple, repetitive, but efficient entertainment that's good enough to spend a weekend watching the return of Cameron Diaz and her still-lively chemistry with Jamie Foxx.

Netflix delivers its first big blockbuster of the year and does so by bringing back the chemistry of Foxx and Diaz on screen with an everyday action comedy that will not propose anything new to the universe, but will leave an entertaining pastime for those looking for simple things without major complexes, sometimes the cinema also needs moments of relaxation like these.

Under the direction of a director who is a regular in the genre like Seth Gordon, we are faced with a film that delivers well-done scenes and sequences and at the same time lacks depth in its characters, not to mention memorable dialogues, but a couple of well-done gags that balance the on-screen adventure in a simple, repetitive blockbuster full of clichés, but that entertains, which is what it ultimately seeks in its mission.

Seeing Cameron Diaz again after so much time on screen is the big punch that this new Netflix release has, despite not having the best tools, the actress once again demonstrates her charisma on screen and her perfect chemistry with an also returning Jamie Foxx after his health problems. Back in action for a duo that is always a delight to see on screen, and although they do not have a wonderful script in their favour, they do provide moments where they make us happy and entertain us just as their supporting actors do, who in some way contributes to a good pastime.

It has all the circumstances to be the new big Netflix franchise, and it has a couple of arguments to give us something more. Clearly, it is not one of those movies that will mark great milestones, but it does manage to be the first big blockbuster of 2025 even if it does not leave everyone happy. It is a Netflix-style movie that is good for a family weekend, at the service of the charisma of a duo that is back to make us spend pleasant moments on screen.

Almost 11 years without Cameron Diaz on screen was too much, seeing her again is a real pleasure. Thank you, Netflix, for that, welcome back home my dear Cameron Diaz.

A couple are convinced to come out of retirement, after their new life and cover is blown.

It's teetering on being one of those movies that's so bad, it happens to be fun. It's nonsense, sheer, total and utter nonsense, but I watched it from start to finish, and didn't get bored.

Everything was over the top, the fact that the couple didn't age at all after fifteen years, the shoot out scenes, the annoying children.

There was a hint of Johnny English about it, nonsensical sci fi, gadgets and gizmos, ridiculous shoot em up scenes, it did make me laugh a couple of times, the stereotypes were pretty funny.

You go for two wonderfully over the top English characters, and neither are English, that made me laugh, and think of Murder, she wrote, Glenn Close and Andrew Scott doing wonderfully, plummy English accents.

I rather liked Nigel, a bumbling British agent, who could have been lifted out of a spoof from the early 2000's, Jamie Demetriou was amusing.

One issue though, Americans poking fun at British food.....hand me the sugar, colourings and trans fats.

Fun, nonsense.

6/10.