Spy (2015)

Let me start with an easy question. What is one common thing between the following movies: Mission Impossible-Ghost Protocol, Fast and Furious -7, The Great Gatsby, The Amazing Spiderman and Spy? Well although I have cut short the list but you must have guessed it by now, all those movies have a famous Indian actor/actress in it. Nargis Fakhri gets her two scenes in this action comedy, including a knife fight with the leading lady of the movie. Not bad considering the benchmark set by Anil Kapoor.

However coming back to the movie in question; Spy is the story of Susan Cooper (Melissa McCarthy) an overweight, ignored and insulted desk bound CIA agent whose primary responsibility is to assist field agent Bradley Fine (Jude Law) for whom her admiration touches borders with love. However when Fine is killed during a mission and identities of all the top agents of CIA is reveled than Cooper takes the matter in her hand and tries to stop the sale of a nuclear warhead (of course). The storyline about a desk bound agent (Get Smart -2008) or an altogether untrained person (Bad Company -2002) going on an espionage mission is not a complete novelty, still this movies makes an entertaining watch due to its humour and some fabulous performances by Melissa McCarthy and Jason Statham. The transformation of mild mannered McCarthy into fierce ass kicking, mean and abusive agent is a treat to watch, same stands true for the comical performance of the year by Jason Statham, his scenes with McCarthy will bring the house down.

The story is somewhat predictable yet doesn’t bore you, supporting performance are good and action is not over the top but nice.

On the down side there is one really distasteful scene featuring one man’s genital which should have been avoided by the director as it doesn’t serves any purpose and is simply gross.

Ignoring the above mentioned issue the movie is a nice watch if you don’t mind foul language, coz believe me it is full of it.

Rating. ***1/2

Note: The movie may feel offensive to few people so please don’t watch it with children or anybody who couldn't stand Game of Thrones .