Spy (2015) Review

                 "Spy" is an action comedy where a CIA analyst Susan Cooper (played by Melissa McCarthy) volunteers to go undercover to infiltrate the world of a deadly arms dealer after her partner (played by Jude Law) seem to have gotten killed during one of his missions. Of course, some of the other agents doubt her as she never actually went on the field before and fear that she'll screw up.

                  Alright, the question when you go into a movie like this is, is it actually funny? Yes. Surprisingly so. There's a lot of fun visual gags and witty dialogue here. Melissa McCarthy did a brilliant job at being consistently funny with her performance. I was initially skeptical thinking this would potentially be one of those comedies with a lot of dumb, worthless overweight jokes (like in the trailers for Paul Blart: Map Cop 2), but no, it's smartly written. Jason Statham (from the Transporter movies) and Bobby Cannavale also provide a few enjoyable laughs. Even the serviceable action scenes were usually amusing fun.

                 Sadly, I'm really hesitant to call this movie great. There's nothing in this movie that's outright bad, but I unfortunately did have a few problems that sort of slowly added up. 1) I would've honestly toned down some of the foul language as some of the humor does revolve around swear words. The foul-mouthed wordplay was funny at first, but then towards the end, it felt really tired after a while, even for me who does indeed use foul language from time to time.

                 2) Speaking of tired, the movie dragged on for too long overstaying its welcome at its running length of 2 hours. During the third act, somehow the characters have grown less and less interesting, the story got really boring, and even the action scenes just got less exciting for me. Overall, the movie was very funny at its best, but I'm not sure I want to watch this movie ever again.

                 If you are a fan of spy films, you'll probably have fun with this one. As far as comedies go, "Spy" still does a lot of things right over a lot of the other bullcrap that's out there. I think there's just a part of me that's admittedly a little biased, as I just saw this movie a few months ago called "Kingsman: The Secret Sevice" which is also a spy comedy. But I enjoyed Kingsman a lot more because that movie did a much better job of keeping things fun and exciting the entire way through, and it's also just more engaging and clever in general. However, if you're looking for something funny, you might want to consider giving "Spy" a try.

                I give "Spy"(2015) directed by Paul Fieg a 6 out of 10.