This balancing act falls flat

result kinda ghoulish.

There is a lot of doublecrossing going on in the story and some reasonably clever twists, but I never felt quite invested enough in the story or the characters to get excited by the intrigue.

Watching it limp from action scene to comedy scene and back again was sufficient to keep me reasonably entertained, but not much more.

As fun and charismatic as Kunis and McKinnon are to watch, their characters are woefully underdeveloped, and while I liked the characters, I felt like I knew nothing about them apart from some thin cliches: Audrey is an underachieving singleton, and Morgan is the “crazy one” who has a weird relationship with her parents.

That might sound like a good basis for building characters, but unfortunately that’s also where it stops.

And despite the globetrotting nature of the story, if those streetscapes all start to look the same after a while, that’s because it was mostly shot in Hungary, with some limited establishing footage shot in the real settings of Paris, Prague and Vienna (where it is much more expensive to film).

The Spy Who Dumped Me is a pretty straightforward creature, really: a buddy comedy about two friends out of their depth in the world of international espionage.

And it could have worked, but for its uncomfortable switching back and forth between giddy comedy and violent action. And a two-hour run time is just a bit unnecessary for this kind of flick. (MA15) is now showing at Village Cinemas and Cmax. Rating: