Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Film myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.Soul-crushing as only a \u201cromp\u201d can be, Back in Action is the latest in a well-established sub-genre of action comedy: the \u201cespionage domesticity\u201d strain, in which spies either go undercover masquerading as folks next door or actually just are the folks next door (Schwarzenegger in True Lies, Gal Gadot and Jon Hamm in Keeping Up with the Joneses). Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx play daredevil CIA operatives who retire to raise a family in the suburbs. But eventually the business catches up with them, and they go on the run accompanied by their two kids. Rylan Jackson is their younger boy, who proves to have spycraft hard-wired in his genes, McKenna Roberts is his stroppy 14-year-old sister; both young actors are lively, and more than dependable when called on to blurt \u201cNone of this makes sense!\u201d with an incredulous eye roll.Andrew Scott, as the MI6 man on the family\u2019s trail, looks uncomfortable throughout, as if tormented by an actor\u2019s better conscience. Glenn Close has fun as Diaz\u2019s English mother, whose imperious chill begins to thaw once she lets rip with her own super-spy talents. Jamie Demetriou blusters like a speed-freak Bertie Wooster as Close\u2019s nice-but-dim toyboy.Diaz and Foxx don\u2019t have fizzing chemistry exactly, but a cosy rapport both in their badinage and their high-kicking fight scenes. The action sequences \u2014 aircraft explosions, mass maimings of inept heavies, boat chases on the Thames \u2014 are snappily choreographed, but somehow just happen, as if suspended in a void, to a self-consciously insouciant soundtrack of James Brown, Dean Martin et al. Though not actually labelled as such on the platform, Back in Action epitomises the Netflix category of \u201ccasual viewing\u201d, ie stuff you can have on in the background while you\u2019re washing up. At two hours, that\u2019s a lot of crockery you can get through.\u2605\u2606\u2606\u2606\u2606On Netflix now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Film myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.Soul-crushing as only a \u201cromp\u201d can be, Back in Action is the latest in a well-established sub-genre of action comedy: the \u201cespionage domesticity\u201d strain, in which spies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":169096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-169095","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-culture"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169097,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169095\/revisions\/169097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}