Audrey and Morgan are two best friends who have lived together in the same flat for long time. Their lives turn upside down when Audrey's ex boyfriend appears suddenly, involving both of them in an international conspiracy among serious murderers. They have to fight to save their lives.
It's not funny enough to stand out as a comedy, it's not clever enough to stand out as a spy movie... It's pretty middle-of-the-road kind of forgettable.
"The Spy Who Dumped Me" wears its gender politics and its paean to female friendship with gratifying lightness, and Fogel keeps the action moving too briskly for even the missteps to leave skid marks.
Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining. We got fight scenes, car chases, undercover missions, mixed with the bumbling antics of the BFFs and genuine luck having duo.
McKinnon, as always, is an unhinged delight, but she and Kunis just don't have enough chemistry to push this grisly tale of friendship-conquers-all over the hump.
It is telling that I figured out just what will happen in this predictable story minutes into the movie - most of the "surprises" are not a surprise - so the real draws are the action and McKinnon.
Comedies and spy thrillers aren't inherently incompatible but it takes a deft hand and a well-honed script to successfully merge the two and The Spy Who Dumped Me has neither.
