Spy

Plot synopsis:
The film begins with Bradley Fine (Jude Law) infiltrating a black-tie party, with the guidance of Susan Cooper (Melissa McCarthy). He quickly makes it to the head honcho underground (Raad Rawi) and holds him at gun-point, who reveals himself as Tihomir Boyanov, the father of Rayna Boyanov (Rose Byrne). He is about to sell a nuclear bomb to terrorists. Suddenly Fine's allergies act up and he sneezes as he shoots Boyanov's father in the head. Susan is shocked, but she quickly leads him out as Fine escapes on a boat back to the CIA. It is EXTREMELY OBVIOUS that she has a thing for him.Later, at dinner with Fine, Cooper receives a black box from Fine. She thinks it's a ring only to be shocked as it turns out to be a cupcake necklace. Fine then tells her to look at him closer.... only to find out that she contacted Pink-Eye.The next day, at CIA Headquarters, Head Elaine Crocker (Allison Janney) briefs the agents on the mission at hand. Nobody knows where the nuclear bomb is except Rayna Boyanov. She then sends off Fine to Boyanov's residence as Cooper is insulted and sent out by Agent Rick Ford (Jason Statham).That night, before the mission, Cooper goes out with her best friend Nancy (Miranda Hart) to a bar. She says that she has no idea where she's going in life. She joined the CIA after she quit being a teacher and her husband left her, and she thought things would be better, but she's just the same old boring person she was. Nancy tries to cheer her up by insulting Agent Karen Walker (Morena Baccarin), but this backfires when Walker notices them.During the mission, Fine's cameras and tech are acting up at Boyanov's residence. Cooper tells him to back-off, but he goes inside and disarms both guards. Boyanov then suddenly appears and holds him at gun-point. To Cooper's horror, Boyanov shoots Fine in the head and exposes all the agents in the CIA.The funeral for Fine happens, and Crocker decides to carry on the mission despite losing Fine. After confronting Cooper on calling Boyanov a "thundercunt" in the official report, Cooper discovers a list of numbers from Fine's spy-feed before he got killed. The numbers link them to De Luca (Bobby Cannavale), a businessman long suspected to be linked to terrorists; and who has an office in Paris. Crocker has no idea who to send (as all the agents' covers were blown), until Cooper volunteers, to the chagrin of Ford. After Crocker announces Cooper as officially on the case, Ford quits. Crocker then calls Cooper in her office and shows her a video from Cooper's training days. Cooper was the top of her class and was considerably aggressive, but placed herself in the job of analyst to the advice of Fine instead of being an agent.Crocker then gives Cooper her first identity and sends her off to gather her gadgets and head to France.Upon touching down in Paris, Cooper is brought, not to a grand hotel, but to a seedy motel. In her room, she is surprised by Ford, who has "gone rogue". After telling her a variety of (exaggerated) stories about his exploits, he tells Cooper to stay out of his way and that she will fail.The next day, Cooper finds out that the office of De Luca was burned down; he knew the CIA was coming. She then spots one of his associates on a photo taken by a bystander, and goes to a cafe where she is startled by Ford; who once again chastises her and walks away. Suddenly, De Luca's henchman appears and follows Ford. Cooper then follows them as an unidentified woman (Alicia Vela-Bailey) swaps Ford's backpack with an identical one containing a bomb. Cooper then chases and warns Ford in time for him to throw the bomb into the river without any casualties, but one of De Luca's goons snaps a picture of Cooper - blowing her cover. Cooper chases him to the burned down office and loses him - until he appears behind her and threatens her with a knife. She then takes out her gun and threatens him, at which he laughs - there's no clip - or rather it is lying on the ground beside her!. Cooper, however, successfully fends him off and knocks him off a balcony whereby he is impaled on a stake. A shaken Cooper then faints.Back in her motel room, Cooper, who took the camera, sends the footage to CIA. They then hear De Luca talking about "Renaldo". They figure out that "Renaldo" is the name of a Rolls-Royce car, and that it is presently in Rome. Cooper is then given another identity and flown off to Italy.In Rome, a spy (Peter Serafinowicz) is sent to drive Cooper to intercept "Renaldo". Cooper then spots De Luca going inside the Casino. To go in, she buys herself a nice dress and makes herself up.Inside the casino, Ford once again spots Cooper and insults her, while Cooper tells him to fuck off and that she's got this. Cooper then enters the private casino, and upon getting kicked out, she spots a waiter slip poison in a drink and alerts the customer- who is Reyna Boyanov in the flesh. For her thanks, Reyna forces the waiter to drink the spiked drink- which burns a hole through his throat as Cooper faints in horror. Boyanov then takes Cooper out to dinner as thanks for saving her life.During dinner, Boyanov spots Ford, sends her men to kill him; but Cooper sends out a morse code message to cut the power of the casino. While the power is out, she creates a diversion to let Ford go. Upon waking, Rayna brings "Penny Morgan" to her private plane en-route to Bulgaria, where Cooper is poisoned with her drink and knocked out.Upon waking, Boyanov is confronted by the Pilot (Matt DeVere) at gun-point. Cooper quickly subdues him and the other hostiles, while getting the plane under control on auto-pilot. Boyanov then holds Cooper at gunpoint, saying she knows she is from the CIA. Cooper then lies and makes up a fake name, saying that she's a bodyguard to protect her, and that her father sent her. Boyanov believes her and lets Cooper fly them into Bulgaria.In Budapest, Boyanov's associate, Anton (Björn Gustafsson), meets up with her while Cooper, mistakenly believing him to be an assassin, throws her phone at his head and insults him all the way to Boyanov's room at the hotel. Upon being left alone, she turns on her earpiece and makes her way out of the hotel, where Nancy surprises her- she was sent to keep an eye on Cooper. Boyanov then spots them and after Cooper saying that Nancy is an assistant bodyguard, an unknown assailant shoots at them, killing Boyanov's associate. Cooper picks up a pizza delivery scooter and gives chase while Nancy runs with Boyanov. Upon catching up, Cooper is surprised to see that the assailant is none other than Agent Karen Walker (Morena Baccarin). Walker is then suddenly shot in the head by a sniper while Cooper flees.Back at the hotel, Boyanov screams at her two incompetent "bodyguards", and tells them that her client is meeting her that night at a party, and "don't fuck up if you don't want me to shoot a bullet in your heads". They then hire an "additional bodyguard" who is none other than the spy from Rome. At the party, Cooper spots Ford yet again, as well as the woman from Paris. She then follows her as Nancy attacks musical guest star 50 Cent (playing himself) on stage to get arrested and cause a distraction. Cooper follows the woman to a restaurant, where they fight, with Cooper overpowering her and accidentally launching a knife through her hand. As she arrests her under the FBI, someone launches a knife in her heart- Fine (Jude Law), who faked his death and is now with Boyanov.Cooper is tied up and locked up with the spy from Italy. Fine then comes in and tells Cooper that his entire plan was to get close with Boyanov by faking his death, and that he was actually going to stop her. He tells Cooper to hang tight as he leaves, but Cooper has had enough. She gets help and frees herself and the spy from Italy as she drives to the estate of De Luca.De Luca, who doesn't trust Fine, tells Boyanov that the deal is off unless Fine gets killed. Cooper then pops in and gives De Luca a deal- she'll allow the deal to happen if Fine lives. She then confesses about how shitty the CIA was and how she knew that Fine would never be hers. De Luca accepts Cooper's deal.De Luca's customer then arrives and gives him his payment- millions of euros worth of diamonds. Boyanov then leads everyone to where the nuke is - inside "Renaldo" (the Rolls) the whole time. De Luca then suddenly shoots his customer and holds everyone at gunpoint. Ford once again interferes but accidentally knocks himself out.De Luca runs while Cooper shoots and kills every one of his henchmen, with Fine getting shot in the process. Cooper then gives chase to De Luca escaping in his helicopter, with an awakened Ford chasing after them. Cooper catches on his helicopter while Ford grabs her boobs. De Luca tries to shake them off, but only succeeds in dropping Ford and Cooper's shoes. Cooper then swings herself inside the helicopter and throws the diamonds and the nuke in the lake below. An angered De Luca then attempts to kill Cooper, but Nancy, who is now in a helicopter with the help of 50 Cent, shoots him with a sniper rifle and kills him. Cooper then lands the chopper - her first ever mission is complete.Upon landing, Ford congratulates her and drives "off to sea" (which is now a nuke-contaminated lake), the spy from Italy is actually MI6 (and British!) and Fine asks Cooper out on a date. She declines to have a girls night with Nancy, and the two walk away as Cooper gets a new assignment.Shortly before the credits roll, we see Cooper waking up in bed with Ford. She screams in disgust as Ford cuddles her and says, "I know you liked it".

Tags: comedy, murder, violence, revenge, flashback, humor, romantic, sadist

Review:
My girlfriend and I took advantage of the KFC special with ice cream and entre and salad and had a great time watching Spy. Melissa is so good and talented.
While Kingsman was about setting up this elite organization and showing off their penchant for ridiculously elaborate action sequences, Spy has little exposition and throws you right into this hysterical world where Jude Law is the super suave secret agent and Melissa McCarthy acts as his eyes and ears back at headquarters.
If you aren't laughing at the jokes, you can laugh at how insane and over-the-top the action is - either way, it's an incredibly fun time.What I find most compelling about Spy is how likable each character is.
Miranda Hart plays Cooper's goofy friend who does dumb things with the best of intentions, Rose Byrne plays the villainous daughter of a rich terrorist and has some excellent back-and-forth bickering with McCarthy, and Peter Serafinowicz plays Aldo: a sleazy Frenchman who absolutely loves women and especially their boobs.
The fact that he even agreed to this movie says a lot about Statham's attitude - he's a great sport and isn't afraid to make fun of himself, and I really hope this earns him more comedic roles in the future.Spy was everything I wanted it to be and more.
Yawn, Yawn, Yawn.Sitting through the vulgar language and bad acting in this move made the $1.50 I paid seem like too much money.Melissa McCarthy can be a funny, talented actor but she seems to have to resort in playing parts where she uses extremely vulgar language making her look untalented, seamy and stupid.
The inane, vapid humor in this horribly scripted movie filled with obscene vulgar language actually made me angry.Don't waste a minute of your time or a penny of your money on this bad movie.
It's sad to see that Jude Law and Jason Statham participated in this since they have so much more potential and thinking that they wasted time filming this and not something of quality makes me sad.This movie is what's wrong with society nowadays.
Spy is an action comedy starring the versatile and hilarious actress Melissa McCarthy.
Spy is indeed the worst movie of 2015.It is extremely boring.This movie relies on vulgar words and swearing in a desperate attempt to make us laugh, but in reality is a complete failure.Making fun of fat people and a movie which supports racism.Bad acting and not funny at all.Save your money and save your time from this major disappointment!.Melissa McCarthy made a fatal mistake by accepting to act in this rubbish movie.I wonder: " Will Melissa MCCarthy Act In Adult Movies For The Sake Of Money"?.Avoid this movie at all costs!..
It's like they tried to copy the old spy films with a play mix on Police Academy, did they really think that the whole world had completely got sucked into "hey this is hot"?
It's almost as bad as the (2014) Annie movie remake.I do feel quite mentally shot down after watching this as I was hoping to see a comedy which never got me to reached the point of a smile.
Also, like all of Paul Feig's films, you have Melissa McCarthy being humiliated for over 2 hours.
How can great actors like Melissa McCarthy and Jason Statham go as low as to take part in a movie like this?
I will state publicly at risk of being assassinated that imho Jason Statham can't act and I've cringed so many times when I've tried to watch his movies that I couldn't mention.
Jason Statham's character in particular cursed no end.Add to this the graphic in-your-face scene where someone's penis is graphically put on display in any number of angles for about 30 seconds - nudity that has simply nothing to do with the storyline, and you wonder if this movie is not about satiating the director's exhibitionism.
Pretty Latin actress, Morena Baccarin is the only reason worth watching this movie and cute Rose Byrne is good, but she has the mouth of a foul mouth truck driver in this film.After seeing Melissa McCarthy in her t.v show "Mike & Molly" and in her break out movie "Identity Thief" which I liked and it did Not have a lot of hard core profanity in it, I thought I would like her in this movie.
Jason Statham, whom I like in his action movies is a walking trash can and a waste in this movie.Why is it that movie studios and production companies think to make a movie funny, it must have a lot of profanity in it.
Studios and production companies need to wake the hell up and take a look at the success of big guy comic actor, Kevin James' movies like "Hitch", "Paul Blart-Mall Cop 1-2" and "Here Comes the Boom", all very funny movies with little to no profanity at all.
She is a person that no doubt has talent and intelligence, but nobody has told her so, which can be the only reason she would embarrass herself with this demeaning, tacky and unfunny garbage, over in over, repeating the previous bad movie she completed before.This train wreck of a film wasted hours of my life, and took down so many actors with its insipidly juvenile plot, terrible script, and inane dialogue.
He is the guy that Guy Richie made be great and funny, but the "Feig" that directed this crap made me want to never see him in another movie again...and I am the guy who even liked him in "In the name of the King".
And tell him not to share needles with Rose Byrne...such a beautiful lady to waste in this movie obviously written by some potty mouthed sixth graders (or Seth McFarlane).That Melissa McCarthy is wasting her lives on fart joke, vomit jokes, "Pee-pee" picture jokes, and degrading herself by just being the fat-chick butt of all jokes at the expense of her dignity, is just a tragedy.
Never again I'm I going to watch another film starring Melissa McCarthy, not even in the upcoming Ghostbusters movie.Overall, of all the films I've seen come out in 2015, this is by far the worst movie of 2015.
Let me start by emphasizing that Melissa McCarthy is a great actress but her talents are unfortunately dwarfed in this film by the poorly written script and bad acting of others.
"How can we make a movie around our feminist misconceptions?" and "How can we get as much product placement into this as possible." I read other reviews about people not liking Melissa McCarthy.
After watching Spy (which included skipping through half of it, except for Jason Statham's portions) I kept wondering if he was talking about the same movie.
So, what were you on, Mr. Travers?Melissa McCarthy is arguably the best comedian at work right now (The Heat was just incredible!), but with Spy she had nothing to work with apart from a bunch of contrived jokes and situations that probably escaped from Dane Cook's stand-up material and took refuge in Paul Feig's mind.
God knows, the entire cast did their best to salvage some form of comedy from a juvenile script that felt like it was written by a 11-year old brat with a laptop, half a brain and no sense of humor.
I don't normally pay to see comedies but we have a fairly new dine-in theater and wanted to have a nice first experience by watching a funny and witty movie.
No doubt this movie reflects the type of humor many viewers probably want to see today, sexual innuendo, f-bomb in nearly every line and unfortunately, really bad "fat" jokes.
The first 15 minutes of seen it before jokes that weren't funny the first time was all I needed to abandon this movie.
But the jokes are only stuck in corny movie cliché and along the way we get guns, fights and chases played straight, all of it needless boredom, because you're not going to wow us with action in a McCarthy comedy.Nothing stands.
No matter let's all watch a gregarious Italian man grope Melissa McCarthy again.The second act of the film consists of an escalating number of action set-pieces which offer nothing new to the genre; action, comedy, or otherwise.
All that's left to do is tag on convoluted double-crosses and swap allegiances a few times in the vein hope that the audience still cares about our all but ignored maguffin.My main problem with Spy is it completely fails to lampoon or undermine the point of spy films, instead replicating the same tired comedy- spy schtick that's been around since Casino Royale (1967).
Far from a nadir in the genre, to be sure (I can fill a days worth of column inches with terrible spy/action comedy movies).
This is the first movie that I have ever seen involving either Paul Feig or Melissa McCarthy.
Apparently Feig has worked with McCarthy a lot, and her playing a lead in this just seems like lazy nepotism.Jude Law is terrible as the CIA's top agent, his US accent is weak, and his embarrassment is topped ( no pun intended) by his terrible toupee.saving graces are Jason Statham, spoofing his on screen persona brilliantly, but his potential is totally wasted.Miranda Hart- an actress I have never particularly liked- is surprisingly good here, and brings an energy the film doesn't deserve..
Ably assisted by colleague and friend Nancy, she has to show her metal.This and Kingsman were movies that I was desperate to watch, I must say I loved them both, hopefully this will start a new wave of James Bond inspired comedies.
Funny from start to finish, I absolutely loved it, it felt similar to Kingsman if I'm being honest, The most random moment of all was seeing that Ukranian Eurovision song contest entry from a few years back, never thought I'd ever be seeing that again!Melissa McCarthy has ridiculously good comic timing, she is naturally funny, and her genius is put to great use in this film, a truly hilarious woman, she manages to be funny and totally lovable too.
the movie is quite predictable and all the funny parts feel forced, and the better scenes are all seen in the trailer, basically, if you've watched the trailer then you watched the best parts of the film and you can just skip the rest.
all characters are very annoying and none are likable, no real backbone history of any of them.action was lame, and boring.Jason Statham and Rose Byrne, two of my favorite actors fail to impress here, probably because of what they had to work with, and the poorly written script.
A well made good laugh..Melissa Mccarthy is very good, i think this is her best..and a good start studded cast, this films brings jokes out of nowhere, kudos to the director/writer/producerthis really deserves 7 in IMDb...
And while our taste in movies is different and comedy is something that will be viewed differently by anyone watching, I think it's a big mistake calling out people and suggesting things like that.In other words: Whether you liked this or not, it doesn't mean people who disagree with you got paid or have no sense of humor.
There are some genuine great action scenes in this.And Jason Statham is terrific in spoofing himself (to put it PG words, something you won't get in this movie by the way - there's a reason it's rated R and it's mostly because of the language used).
Feig and McCarthy, yet again, seem to be spitballing ideas here, trying to find what works for her in the vein of physical comedy, dialog, and situational events and finding a ground that's more solid than the terribly loose "Tammy" but less appealing than the chemistry-driven "Heat." It's a hodgepodge of epic proportions in terms of the direction of its humor, along with being seriously confused about its presentation as an action-comedy.The story revolves around Melissa McCarthy's Susan Cooper, a CIA analyst/desk jockey who helps guide her fellow Agent Bradley Fine (Jude Law) on missions, watching his every move through computers and assisting him in compromising predicaments.
We never really know whether or not we should be laughing with or at "Spy," and that poses a big problem for the tone of the film.Again, McCarthy can be admirable at certain times in the film, but overall, there's a dreary sense of familiarity with her performances.
Between this and Feig trying to throw McCarthy into every comic situation possible (including some very unfunny and absurdly long scenes involving Peter Serafinowicz's character trying to molest Susan at every turn) and we just have another comedy trying way too hard to be funny."Spy" can, however, claim to have a very strong cast of supporting characters, specifically Byrne and Janney, both of whom do very capable work here.
All the others- Jude Law, Jason "Transporter" Statham and Rose Byrne, give good performances to hold up the movie.
But it is a one time watch for McCarthy fans, who will enjoy the movie only for her.
Saturday, 6 June 2015: My wife and I went to see Melissa McCarthy and Jason Statham's new action comedy movie, "Spy".
Cute Rose Byrne, action star, Jason Statham and very pretty Morena Baccarin all made a good cast, but the cursing every minute brought my rating of the movie way down.
After that, this movie's downfall can be more evenly distributed between an actress named Miranda Hart, who plays the annoying best friend/sidekick, and writer/director Paul Feig's comedic joke telling abilities; or lack thereof.Even though McCarthy has transformed into the female equivalent of Will Farrell (with her character remaining the same from film to film) she is not the problem here.
It is impossible to tell and they switch from moment to moment sometimes more than once in a minute's time.Watch Johnny English or The Man Who Knew too Little for FAR better examples of this type of comedic spy movie..
In this action-comedy directed by Paul Feig who brought us Bridesmaids (2011) and The Heat (2013), Melissa McCarthy plays Susan Cooper, a CIA analyst who takes on a dangerous mission with her partner Bradley Fine (played by Jude Law) to capture an international terrorist named Sergio De Luca (played by Bobby Cannevale) who is in possession of nuclear weapons.
With hilarious Melissa McCarthy comedies like Bridesmaids and The Heat, I had much confidence in this film, especially upon watching the trailer with Jude Law's character accidentally shooting a terrorist after sneezing.
For all the others who want an actual storyline with characters that matter, skip this one and wait for a real Melissa Mccarthy comedy to come out..
Supporting cast, including Jason Statham, Jude Law, Rose Byrne, Allison Janney and 50 Cent (!), looks properly embarrassed; Miranda Hart, playing an overeager nerd, shows some comedic flair but doesn't have the funny lines to put her role over.
(Pardon the cliché: there's a reason we have them.)In Spy, McCarthy portrays Susan Cooper, a CIA analyst who spends her days acting as the well-trained ear to 007-esque field agent Bradley Fine (Jude Law).
But best is, shockingly, Statham, who lampoons his image so hilariously one can only wonder what's been keeping him out of the comedy world all these years.I loved Spy. I don't go to the theaters often — money, you see, is too sacred to constantly spend on entertainment — but I haven't had this much fun in the cinema chair for what feels like years.
I think the people on here who didn't like it must have been looking for some deep, epic movie instead of a comedy.
The movie is probably not the most funny film, but it is entertaining throughout the movie.There is violence, comedy and action.
And one really important ingredient to this movies comedy is Miranda Hart, there wasn't a single scene where she was speaking that I wasn't doubled over laughing, she plays a very lovable best friend character to Melissa McCarthy.
All in all, if you're expecting a well made hilarious Melissa McCarthy action comedy movie, then that's exactly what you're going to get.
I might have given Spy 6 stars, instead of 5, but I personally didn't like the way some characters turned out and some parts of the film felt condescending.
Which was my experience of Spy. It lost all touch with reality.Susan Cooper was a likable character for me but the problem is she doesn't grow or learn through out the film (like in, say, Kingsman), she just abruptly turns from a clumsy beginner to a competent agent.So after bashing the film I have to say that despite its plot problems it was still very funny and overall I enjoyed my movie experience..
Melissa McCarthy always plays the same character a funny, self conscience middle aged women, but that does not mean that this movie was disappointing,, It was a spoof of a old James Bond movie at the start.
If you are a fan of Melissa McCarthy you probably liked the movie, don't expect to see a serious spy movie with her in it.
Good laugh, great characters, especially Melissa and the 3 leading guys were fantastic making fun of male characters in action movies :))) Jude Law makes fun of Bond, Jason Statham mocks his Too Fast, Too Furious character and Peter Serafinowcz is perfect as Aldo, the Italian lover.
The star of actual spy movies does have some funny dialogue at times, but his character is a screw-up who talks a mean game.
Melissa McCarthy plays Susan Cooper who is an office CIA agent helping field agent Bradley Fine (Jude Law).
Melissa McCarthy is the star of SPY but, because she plays it so low-key, her performance (as good as it is) is drowned out by the ludicrous characters surrounding her.
Yes, this isn't as great as some other comedy out there, may be not even as good as Bridesmaid which seemingly is the benchmark now but this isn't another sisterhood movie, this is a funny spin on a Spy flick shot, People.