Sunday Tribune

A script that’s so bad it’s laughable

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and much less memorable.

Mckinnon’s fans will have to wait longer for a feature that deserves her lightning-bolt comic charisma. This one leaves her, and the more restrained Kunis, as stranded as a covert operative whose cover is blown.

Fogel, whose Gillian Jacobs/ Leighton Meester comedy Life Partners found some admirers on the fest circuit, teams with TV vet David Iserson on a script that sometimes feels like an exquisite corpse – a game in which a dozen scribes wrote individual scenes, knowing only what came immediatel­y before and after in the plot.

How else would our heroes be targeted by an elite Russian assassin in one scene and later be tortured by the same woman,

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