Jamie Foxx, Cameron Diaz in Generic Undercover agent Caper

In “Again in Motion,” a home undercover agent caper as generic as its name, Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz, as CIA operatives who’ve develop into a romantic couple, attend a youngsters’ celebration thrown by way of a cyberterrorist from Belarus whose protected they’re making plans to damage into. However their identities are unmasked in about 5 mins. They have got to combat their means out of the felony’s mansion, which they do in a longer collection of bone-breaking face-offs, all accompanied by way of Frank Sinatra making a song “L.O.V.E.” (“L…is for the best way you glance… at me…”). The tune, because it’s used right here, lays at the ironic jauntiness with a trowel. It’s the movie’s means of claiming: Not anything’s at stake, don’t take it critically, flip off your mind and sink into the nice and cozy tub of this Netflix product-of the-week (as a result of that’s all it’s right here for).

Seth Gordon, the director of “Again in Motion,” thinks in cartoon-reality phrases. He thinks that’s his process, and surroundings ultraviolent motion sequences to previous requirements is near to the one playbook “Again in Motion” has. Our heroes are on an MI6 aircraft after they’re ambushed by way of the flight attendants, whom they continue to put waste to as Sinatra sings “Ain’t {That a} Kick within the Head” (haha). The pilot will get shot, the aircraft is taking place, however right here’s Frank, bopping away. Later, Foxx and Diaz use gas-station hoses as flamethrowers to incinerate some thug attackers; the pictures of other people burning alive are accompanied by way of Etta James making a song “At Remaining” (“Ultimately, my love has come alongside…”). They win the combat, however make no mistake: That is the leisure means of a misanthropic hack.

After that aircraft crashes, Matt (Foxx) and Emily (Diaz), who’s pregnant, grasp the chance to faux their very own deaths and start a standard lifestyles. The movie then cuts to the current day, after they’re suburban oldsters, with two youngsters, 14-year-old Alice (McKenna Roberts) and 12-year-old Leo (Rylan Jackson). However they’re drawn again into the fray when they tail Alice to a nightclub, the place she’s within the corporate of a few older dudes. They take her out of the membership by way of beating up a few the opposite partiers — a flagrantly unbelievable situation, but it surely’s essential in order that a cell-phone video of it may possibly move viral and out them as former spies.

With their youngsters now alongside for the journey, they fly to London, the place Matt has stashed the ICS key, the movie’s super-dull MacGuffin. In the event that they retrieve it and go back it to the CIA, they are able to use it for leverage to realize immunity. However the hot button is the object everybody desires, together with their very own previous terrorist foes…    

Staring at “Again in Motion,” it appears like some manufacturer took the unique, overblown, raucous-with-gunfire-and-highway-crashes 2005 film model of “Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” the person who wasted Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, and stated, “Carry me one thing identical to this — excluding don’t make it so goddamn highbrow! I would like it dumber, louder, with out all that wimpy discussion.” There isn’t a lot of an espionage plot to “Again in Motion.” Principally, the film is composed of Foxx and Diaz beating the dwelling shit out of other people — and, in between, performing as breezy and clueless and risk free as though they had been enjoying the fogeys in a reboot of “Circle of relatives Ties.”

The 2 actors are interesting; they’ve were given marriage-as-domestic-fight-club chemistry. And when Glenn Shut presentations up as Emily’s British mom, a former superspy herself, the movie calms down for a bit of ­— and perks up. Shut’s Ginny has an assistant, Nigel (Jamie Demetriou), who’s a spy-in-training and in addition her lover, despite the fact that he’s no less than 40 years her junior. And Nigel, it seems, does no longer know what he’s doing. This produces a humorous collection, the place he has to avoid wasting London by way of tapping the correct issues right into a laptap, and he reacts precisely as maximum people do when faced with the infuriating digital-logistical hoop-to-jump-through-of-the-week. However the true explanation why Nigel’s unsureness is this type of balm is that everybody else in “Again in Motion” (heroes, villains, youngsters) is so cocksure at each second that the movie leaves no room for any comic-thriller component past dull one-dimensional badass certitude.