2016 · action · comedy · spy
Central Intelligence
Directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber1h 47m2016
Calvin Joyner, a mild-mannered accountant whose high school glory days are long behind him, reconnects with an awkward pal from high school through Facebook. After meeting up, Calvin’s mundane life takes an unexpectedly thrilling turn when he's thrust into the world of international espionage.
Our read: Central Intelligence (2016) reads as a neutral, breathless, grounded action · comedy · spy entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured action / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
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