Back in Action

A solid action-comedy that proves just how much we’ve missed Cameron Diaz in the last ten years. Next time don’t leave it so long, eh?

Back in Action epitomises the Netflix category of “casual viewing”, ie stuff you can have on in the background while you’re washing up.

Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx team up for an action-comedy designed meticulously for Gen X

It is vivaciously, even triumphantly, OK. If there was an Oscar for Most Adequate Picture, we’d be gearing up for a sweep.

Diaz's return is welcome, but she needs a better project.

Even if Back in Action is generally tame and bland, you can’t hold that against its stars. Their timing still has that pinpoint zing; their off-the-cuff casualness gives the movie whatever breeziness it’s got.

Doesn't blow the lid off the genre like ['Spy Kids'] did nearly a quarter century ago, but it does offer two hours of good-natured laughter and entertaining-enough intrigue.

Seth Gordon's latest attempt at high profile frivolity falls short of the meager promise in its generic title with this boring misfire cobbling together recycled elements of black action choreography and hokey comedy.

Regardless of the fact that this Netflix action comedy isn’t the most original movie you’ve ever seen, Back in Action throws an amusing curve or two, and the clever teaming of Cameron Diaz with Jamie Foxx is fun and refreshing.

Great chemistry between the lead actors and I had really missed Cameron Diaz.