This is a story of incompetent CIA agents.
Agent Quaker should be fired. After an experimental brain wave transfer, executed first time on humans, he expects patient to remember everything right after the surgery... And when he doesn't, he just decides to give up instantly. Now that is top notch management skills there...
Jerico was secured in a top-level prison with chains and everything and brought in to the surgery unconscious. But when the surgery "failed", Agent Quaker decided to sent him back in a causal police car without any precautions this time... Now that is top notch management skills v2.
Jill triggers the silent alarm and they call to verify. And the dead guy, Jerico causally talks like Bill. No one on the receiving end gets suspicious or thinks about the fact that the guy is dead.
Jill is also not that smart, after a break by entering pin code, she fails to change the pin code and Jerico revisits. :facepalm:.
Agent Quaker is incompetent enough to put some guards to the door for Jill, in case Jerico visits again. He should get a raise, really.
And finally Jerico/Bill... Why are you not smart enough to check if Martha is dead after the explosion, like really? Of course the same goes to Martha as well...
Long story short, CIA is not the smartest agency in the world which makes it a bit painful to watch. :/
Wanted to watch an "easier to digest" comedy this weekend, so I ended up watching Game Night in theaters that just came out with Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams, and I really enjoyed it. There were a lot of good laughs and a very solid and honestly relatively unique premise for a comedy. In action, the "Game Night gone wrong" premise worked out a lot better than I thought it would from seeing the initial trailers, mostly due to a good balance of varied semi-believable comedic situations, a nice brisk pace over 1.5 hours, and a dash of "real life" themes for good measure (but not too much, of course).
There was great chemistry between the two leads of Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams, and the supporting characters were all very fun and unique in their own rights (yay for Sharon Horgan from Catastrophe). Honestly, the specific interactions between each of the couples was done very well, and each couple gave off a distinct vibe that worked to keep the movie fresh. Most of the jokes hit ("Hey Denzel!!"), and things never got too overly "ridiculous" or completely "unbelievable" where all common sense gets completely thrown out the window (aka later Hangover movies). I thought that maybe Max "the stalker cop" would be a little too overboard, but things got concluded quite nicely in the end and worked out for the better (definitely stay to watch the ending credits and the post-credits scene).
I didn't have the greatest expectations coming in, but I was pleasantly surprised by this movie. A very, very solid 7/10 from me. If you want a nice comedy to enjoy with some friends and get some good solid laughs (this one will have jokes for everyone), I definitely recommend checking Game Night out. Or if tickets to Black Panther are sold out... ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
