Hilarious

Rating: 9/10 (7 January 2011)

Bruce Willis is back to the charmer that characterized his early career, and he is joined in this action-filled spy spoof by Helen Mirren (of all people), Ernest Borgnne (who is surely dead), Morgan Feeeman, John Malkovitch, Mary Louise Parker and assorted other actors and actresses. The plot isn't worth summarizing because it is ridiculous, and it's easy to understand why the CIA refused to cooperate --- although, to be fair, it did not arrange for the director, the screenwriter, or any of the actors to be assassinated, which might have been a natural response. It's as filled with weaponry and killing as any video game, and it has about as much redeeming social value. But it makes Bruce Williis seem worth watching again and it is a hoot to watch Helen Mirren as a cultured assassin foiling a CIA plot in service of the worst of the bad-guys played by Richard Dreyfuss, another casting against type. Check your logical faculties at the door and enjoy.