‘Back In Action’ Review: Jamie Foxx And Cameron Diaz Reunite For Zany And Unapologetically Over- The-Top Spy Comedy

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If Back In Action serves for no other reason than to be the movie that finally brought Cameron Diaz back in action making movies, than it was worth it.

Yes, this spy action comedy feels derivative as we have seen from Mr. And Mrs. Smith to Jason Bourne (as the film itself references), and as recently as Mark Wahlberg’s Family Plan which saw his character on the run with his unsuspecting family when his past as a secret assassin is outed.

In Back In Action, it is longtime married couple Matt (Jamie Foxx) and Emily (Diaz) whose long-ago past as super spies comes home to roost — literally — as their suburban cover and happy family life with their two kids is disrupted when a key final job they did 15 years earlier comes back to haunt them.

It brings them out of “retirement” on a mission to keep a certain weapon out of the wrong hands. Actually the Netflix movie, one of those super-expensive globetrotting action flicks streamers seem to love these days, starts out with a sequence even James Bond would find over the top: a flashback to Matt and Emily’s final mission that finds them in manic action and aboard a plane that careens out of control, tears in half, and still enables them to triumph as it heads toward certain total destruction.