Spy is the newest Melissa McCarthy-led comedy film to come out
after she burst into stardom with Bridesmaids
and her television series Mike and Molly. McCarthy’s manic motor-mouth delivery has
kept her in high demand for work in Hollywood, but a lot of people held
reservations about this new film after the disasters of Tammy and Identity Thief
made many believe her to be played out and a one-trick pony. Thankfully, Spy is much more like her buddy comedy The Heat than either of those other two comedies.
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| Best spy action since Kingsman played Freebird |
Spy stars McCarthy
as Susan Cooper, an FBI agent acting as the desk support to a high-level agent,
Bradley Fine, played by Jude Law. Cooper
is nervous and awkwardly flirtatious with Fine, but he is oblivious to her
feelings. After a deadly villain, Rayna
Boyanov, played by Rose Byrne, reveals she has data on all the active FBI
agents, Cooper steps up to volunteer for the mission, as she had passed all of
her field duty exams… with flying colors.
