Back in Action
Came out; 2025
Time; 1 hour 54 Minutes
Watched: Netflix
Rated: PG-13 for sequences of violence and action, some suggestive references and strong language and brief teen partying
IMDB Rating; 5.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
Tomato Meter 28%
Popcorn Meter 58%
Caution; Spoiler Alert
Staring.
Jamie Foxx as Matt
Cameron Diaz as Emily
McKenna Roberts as Alice
Rylan Jackson as Leo
Kyle Chandler as Chuck
Glenn Close as Ginny
Jamie Demetriou as Nigel
Andrew Scott as Baron
Story Line.
Former CIA spies Emily and Matt are pulled back into espionage after their secret identities are exposed
Thoughts:
This started out as your typical “We're spy's but we can walk away and be with each other” type movie but it turned into more than that.
The paring of Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz was perfect. They had great chemistry and made a believable couple.
It was everything I like in a movie, comedy, action and fun.
CAUTION; Spoiler Alert
CIA
agents Matt (Jamie Foxx) and Emily (Cameron Diaz) prep for an
upcoming mission. The two have been secretly seeing each other and
Emily has recently become pregnant but hasn't told Matt yet.
Two
are to infiltrate the birthday party of the young son of Balthazar
Gor (Robert Besta), a major European arms dealer and the terrorist
leader of Volka. The mission is being oversaw by Chuck (Kyle
Chandler), another CIA agent. Emily successfully retrieves
Balthazar's fingerprint and a sample of his voice and the two use it
to break into his safe and steal The Key. The Key is an Industrial
Control Systems (ICS) device that can control any electronic system,
including nuclear reactors. Shortly after taking possession of the
Key an alarm is set off and Emily and Matt fight their way out of the
Gor's estate.
They are provided a plane by MI6 and their
contact Baron (Andrew Scott), who Emily had a previous fling with.
While on the plane trip home Emily reveals her pregnancy to Matt who
is joyful and wants to be with Emily.
The two spies become
suspicious after the flight's steward Dylan (Tom Brittney) informs
them that the bathroom is out of order. However, before they can act
on it, Dylan takes Emily captive at gunpoint requesting the Key. Matt
causes a distraction allowing Emily to escape from Dylan and the two
fight their way through the flight crew.
Dylan accidentally
shoots the pilot while aiming at Emily causing the plane to plummet
into the mountains. Dylan takes possession of the Key, but the plane
clips a peak and his ripped in half ejecting Dylan from the plane
with the Key.
Matt gives Emily the sole parachute, but she
grabs hold of him and the two land safely in the mountains. Realizing
that they have been compromised, and their line of work is too
dangerous with a child on the way, they decide to fake their deaths
in the plane crash and restart life.
15 years later, Emily and
Matt are living a quiet suburban life with their two teenaged
children, Alice (McKenna Roberts) and Leo (Rylan Jackson). Alice
suspects her parents are lying about their past, which they claim
they meet in the Colombia while serving in the peace corp. While
loving parents, the two struggle to truly connect with either
child.
Paranoid over Alice's new relationship with James (Cruz
Hadley) and the growing distance between them, Emily hacks into
Alice's computer and reads through her text messages through Matt
warns against it. The parents track her to a club where they get into
a fight with a few club goers after one of them grabs Alice. The
fight is caught on video, but Matt deletes the video off one of the
phones. Alice is grounded though she calls out their hypocrisy on
hacking her computer and their clear lies about their past.
The
fight has awakened in Emily nostalgia for their past and she wants to
return to the feelings of being needed. The next day Chuck, their
former supervisor at the CIA, arrives at their house revealing he
found them through a posted video of them fighting. He warns them
that they are still in danger. The Key was never found in the
wreckage and the Belarussians, who were behind the attack, are still
seeking them. He also mentions that Baron doubled-crossed them and
was working with the Belarussians. Chuck tells them they must go into
hiding as even the CIA would arrest them if they were found. They
start to refuse but Chuck is then shot and killed, and a group of
mercenaries begin firing on the house. The two are able to flee the
house and the attackers, racing to their children's school to grab
them. Matt admits that he took the Key before the plane crash, hiding
it at Emily's estranged mother's home as an insurance policy in case
their cover was ever broken. After gathering Alice and Leo, they
decide to fly to England where Emily's mother lives, using the Key as
leverage with the CIA for protection.
They tell the children
they have finally decided for them to meet their grandmother, who had
they claimed was dead. Alice once again calls them out for their
hypocrisy. Emily wants to tell the children the truth, but Matt is
against the idea.
The family arrive at Heathrow in London and
their arrival is spotted by Baron. While stopping for breakfast and
gas, Alice and Leo discover that they have fake identities on their
passports. Matt and Emily are ambushed by a group of Volka
mercenaries while fueling up, though they easily dispatch the
attackers much to the shock of the children.
The four flee the
station but are spotted by Baron who gives chase in his own car and
the two cars get into a chase though Emily is able to lose their
tail. After escaping Matt and Emily come clean about their true
identities. Baron continues his search for the family while is deputy
Wendy (Fola Evans-Akingbola) starts to become suspicious of Baron's
obsession with Emily and the sources of his information.
The
family arrives at Emily's mother's house and the kids are surprised
to find her living on a large, lavish estate. Emily's mother, Ginny
Curtis (Glenn Close), is a well-known and renowned former MI6 agent.
She lives there with her lover and protégé, Nigel (Jamie
Demetriou). Meanwhile, Baron uses property records to track the
family to Ginny's estate.
Matt and Emily tell Ginny about the
Key and Ginny and Emily argue over Ginny's absence and lack of love
and support while Emily was a child, while Ginny criticizes Emily for
giving up her career for her family and Alice still is rebelling and
hateful towards Emily. Alice overhears this conversation. Matt and
Emily go to find the Key while Alice spends time with Ginny and Leo
with Nigel.
After retrieving the Key, Matt and Emily notice a
helicopter on the lawn and find Ginny and Nigel tied up. They free
them before finding the children held captive surrounded by
mercenaries. Emily calls for Baron to reveal himself to negotiate but
instead Chuck reveals himself as betrayer. He faked his death and
followed Matt and Emily knowing they'd led him to the Key. He also
reveals that Baron is clean and has been tracking Volka, not working
with them. After the Key was lost and Matt and Emily were presumed
dead Chuck was fired from the CIA and lost everything. He is now
seeking money and revenge. Matt gives Chuck the Key who then takes
Alice and Leo hostage until he can sell the Key, promising to return
them in one day.
Looking through security footage to find any
information about the helicopter, Matt notices Leo signaling that he
still has his thumb ring on that tracks his health data. The group
uses that to track Leo to a black-tie gala being held at the Tate
Modern venue.
Chuck speaks with potential buyers though Gor is
not able to attend and sends his some of his mercenaries to take it.
Chuck's associate Daphne demonstrates the power of the Key but
completely shutting down the power grid of London. He then has Daphne
take control of the Thames River dam, opening it and potentially
flooding London.
Emily and Matt recognize that if Chuck is
demoing the Key is going to be doing it with the best view. They
fight their way up to the penthouse suite where the bidding is taking
place. Chuck sells the Key for $250 million while Emily and Matt are
stopped by Baron who chooses not to arrest them after determining
they were not here to sell the key and acknowledging they thought he
was a double agent. Baron and Wendy fight Chuck's guards while Matt
and Emily chase after Chuck.
Matt and Emily continue the chase
but are stopped by Gor's mercenaries. However, Ginny has taken up a
sniper's position atop the Tate Modern which forces the mercenaries
to let the two leave. Matt and Emily continue the chase using Gor's
men's motorbikes. Baron and Wendy work to close the Thames
dam.
Nigel, who is waiting in a van parked in an alley,
notices Daphne sneakily getting into a hidden van with a computer and
bag. He crashes into the van knocking Daphne unconscious and
retrieves the Key. Nigel tells Ginny who informs Matt and Emily, who
are on a boat in the river chasing Chuck.
Nigel races to close
the dam while Emily and Matt catch up to Chuck's boat and begin to
fight off his mercenaries with help from Leo. Nigel is able to get
the dam closed before Chuck's boat is able to reach the barrier.
Matt, Emily, Leo, and Alice jump off the boat shortly before it
crashes into the now raised barrier killing Chuck.
Emily
reconciles with Alice and then with Ginny while Matt tells Leo how
impressed he is with Leo's quick thinking during his captivity.
A
few weeks later Matt is coaching Alice's soccer team while Emily,
Leo, Ginny, and Nigel cheer on from the crowd. She scores the game
winning the goal and celebrates with the family, who are all now much
closer.
Alice leaves to study with James and her friend
Annalise while Ginny and Nigel take Leo for the night. Matt and Emily
get into their car only to find Baron in the backseat. He tells Emily
there is another mission they need help on and they need her to
recruit another family member- her dad.
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