Role Play

This movie is appropriately called ‘Role Play’ because while watching this I wanted to role play and pretend I was…somewhere else. Anywhere else. Another room. Another state. A Russian prison. Anywhere really.

This movie reminded me of my fifth grade math test, because it had a lot of problems. To start off, we are supposed to be rooting for the female lead, played by Kaley Cuoco, but she’s a killer and just an overall crappy person (to be clear: the character is a killer and a crappy person, not Kaley Cuoco. Ms. Cuoco seems nice and to my knowledge has never killed anyone, but full disclosure, I’ve never met her so I don’t know…maybe if you’re going to meet her for the first time, meet in a public place just to be sure?). My point is, the character didn’t have any redeeming qualities that made me overlook the fact that she kills people for money.

The next major issue I have is this Amazon original movie describes itself as an action comedy, but it wasn’t funny and there wasn’t much action. I’m not sure what it was. Maybe more of a drama? I’m asking here and not telling.  I’m honestly just not sure. It came across as cliché and lacked heart. And I question whether the lead character was even good at her job. She keeps getting referred to as a “highly trained” assassin, but highly trained in what? Plumbing? Your cover got blown, your family got kidnapped, your husband got shot…I’m just saying if I was your assassin boss, you’d be getting bad marks on this year’s employee evaluation.

In conclusion, we’re giving this our “watch only if on a plane and there are no other options” rating. It wasn’t good, but we guess it’s better than looking at Sky Mall magazine (but not better than being in a Russian prison).

✈️= Watch only if on a plane and there are no other options