In "Act," a domestic espionage thriller, CIA agents played by Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz become a romantic couple and attend a children's event hosted by Belarusian cyberterrorists. Their birthday party, their security was hosted by Belarusian cyberterrorists. About to break in. But their identities were revealed in about five minutes. They must fight their way out of the criminal's mansion in a series of bone-breaking confrontations, all set to the soundtrack of Frank Sinatra's "LOVE" ("LOVE")L...for your way look...to me..."). As used here, the song uses a spatula to express ironic glee. That's what the movie says: There's nothing dangerous, don't take it seriously, turn off your brain , sinking into the warm bath of this week's Netflix offering (because that's what it's all about).

Back in Action director Seth Gordon thinks in terms of cartoon reality. He considered it his job, and setting up ultra-violent action sequences by old standards was pretty much the only script for Back in Action. Our heroes are ambushed by flight attendants on an MI6 plane, and flattened to the ground while Sinatra sings "Ain't That a Kick in the Head" (haha). The pilot is shot and the plane is falling, but Frank flies away. Later, Fox and Diaz use a gas station hose as a flamethrower to burn some of their mob attackers; images of people being burned alive are accompanied by Etta James singing "At Last" ,mine like Already there..."). They won the battle, but make no mistake: this is the entertainment strategy of misanthropic hackers.

After a plane crash, pregnant Matt (Fox) and Emily (Diaz) seize the opportunity to fake their own deaths and start a normal life. The film then cuts to the present day, when they are suburban parents with two children: 14-year-old Alice (McKenna Roberts) and 12-year-old Leo (Ryland Jackson). But they were drawn into the fight again after they followed Alice to a nightclub, where she was hanging out with some older men. They beat up several other people and led her out of the club - a patently unbelievable scene, but necessary so that the cell phone video could go viral and expose them as ex-spies.

Now, they're flying to London with the kids in tow, where Matt hides the ICS key, the movie's super-dull MacGuffin. If they retrieved it and returned it to the CIA, they could use it to gain immunity. But the point is what everyone wants, including their own terrorist nemesis…

Watching "Back in Action," it felt like a producer ripped off the 2005 movie version of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith," the guy who wasted Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, and said, “Bring me something like this—just don’t make it so damn intellectual! I wish it were sillier and louder, without the weak dialogue. "There's not a whole lot of espionage intrigue in "Back in Action." Basically, the movie is about Foxx and Diaz beating people to a pulp, and in between they act blithe, ignorant, Harmless, like they were playing parents in the Family Ties reboot.

Both actors are engaging; their marriage has the chemistry of a family fight club. The film calms down a bit, then picks up, when Glenn Close plays Emily's British mother (a former superspy herself). Close's Ginny has an assistant, Nigel (Jamie Demetriou), a trainee spy who is also her lover, even though he is at least 40 years her junior. It turns out Nigel had no idea what he was doing. This leads to an amusing sequence where he has to save London by typing the right things into his laptop, and he reacts exactly the way most of us would when faced with the infuriating interlocking nature of digital logistics . Week. But the real reason Nigel's uncertainty is so comforting is that everyone else in Back in Action (heroes, villains, kids) is so confident at every turn that it's anything but boringly one-dimensional , the film leaves no room for any comedy-thriller elements. Bad certainty.