After working together on both Bridesmaids and The Heat director Paul Feig and Melissa McCarthy are back with this tale of Susan Cooper, a desk bound CIA analyst who acts as the eyes and ears for field agent Bradley Fine (Jude Law) and their teamwork has elevated Fine to the top of his field as a world renound suave, confident, super spy. Behind it all Fine is totally oblivious to Coopers obvious infatuation with him which is exactly what is keeping her from progressing her career. It is during one other these missions where Fine is infiltrating the home of Rayna Boyanov (Rose Byrne), as he believes she is forming links with a terrorist broker Sergio De Luca (Bobby Cannavale), that Rayna kills Fine so Coopers boss decides to send her to Europe to track Rayna to see what her plans are and with some help from Fines colleague Rick Ford (Jason Statham) and a touchy feely European field agent Aldo (Peter Sarafinowicz), Cooper gets on the case.

Byrne is excellent in an over the top performance as a spoilt brat with a constant demeanour of distain towards everyone who take downs cut to the bone and Statham is hilarious as the yarn spinning spy who constantly feels a need to comment on his (obviously exaggerated) feats like “During the threat of an assassination attempt I appeared, convincingly, in front of Congress as Barack Obama”.

Through the movie the comedy is excellent, particular when McCarthy is doing what she does best in spouting out insult after insult with the scene where she tears pieces out of Raynas aide Anton being particularly funny and it is McCarthys over the top interaction with Byrne and Statham in particular which give the movie it’s best moments. It feels like everyone enjoyed themselves on screen and Feig does a good job of the turning the usual macho chauvinistic elements of the spy movies on their head.

Overall the movie pieces together very well and I enjoyed it more than I thought it would, it’s a good spin on the James Bond theme but one with a plot line that actually works within the confines of the humour which leads the film into being one of the better comedy movies of recent years but it’s very much all about McCarthy so if she is not your thing then steer clear.

DJ Speaks Rating: 6 Out Of 10