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The first half of the movie was great (spoilers)


The opening was a ridiculous action sequence, then again it was the content of a spy novel, so that is OK.

The writer is a middle aged women slightly overweight, again makes sense, she is a writer, not someone with an active lifestyle.

Then she came in middle of real life spy action, someone came to kill her, and she was clumsy and helpless. An super agent came and saved her, a bit cheesy and unrealistic, then again nothing wrong with that.

Then the real twist came, what she wrote mirrored what happened in real life, and that is why she was involved in assassination attempts. And the agent saved her wanted her to predict what is going to happen next, and she figured it out. Again it is all right, she did a lot of research for her novels, she was very knowledgeable, practically an analyst. It is a stretch, but believable.

Then the unrealistic part came, her parents are agents, and willing to kill her, and her father was the head of rogue organisation. Things start to not making so much sense.

Then it turns out she was a CIA agent too, lost memory. What she wrote was suppressed memory. The super agent saved her challenged her to a fist fight, she beats him easily with body memory. Now it is really not making any sense. I mean no matter how good she was, she did not exercise or train for 5 years, she is now overweight, how could she beat a top active agent? Isn't that too much girl power?

Then it turned out she used to be an rogue agent, working for her fake parents, that is one twist too many. I mean who was trying to kill her in the beginning? Both sides needed her to finish her story.

If she and her fake parents are the agents of the same side, a lot of their actions are hard to explain.

The agent saved her before hated the writer she has become, then in the end got together with her when she became the writer once again?

These recent spy action movies have the tendency of hoping you don't think too much, forget the movie all together after watching, so you don't notice all the things wrong in the plot. I don't think that is a good way of making movies, the box office of this movie reflected it.

Anyway, the first half was enjoyable. The second half became really stupid.

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This film certainly won't win an Oscar.
Just take it as it is, please.
A parody of spy movies, sometimes completely exaggerated.
Good popcorn cinema. 🍿​

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Things need to make sense for me, or I can't enjoy it.

I am very anal about that.

But that is not just me, is it? At least for this movie, a lot of people seems not liking it, I think mostly due to those twists.

If you liked it, then good for you.

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