danielle_davis94

When I went to watch this I had VERY low expectations, I arrived a bit late and what I wanted to watch was already 15 minutes in, so I went to see this instead. I was SO happy that I was late, I laughed so much during this film, most of the time when a film is described as 'comedy' I find the jokes more uncomfortable than funny, this film had some great one liners and comedic timing. The action part was good, unlike some films it wasn't all action all the time, it had some great plot points and twists, and my favorite part was the fact that Audrey and Morgan who are just two ordinary women didn't immediately become amazing super spy's 10 minutes into the film, and it shows that a lot of the time they were lucky or even just accidentally managing to do things right. So as this film is billed as comedy/action, I believe it meets both of those criteria, and the people who see COMEDY and expect it to be just like a bond film or a Mission Impossible film should really reconsider what they think comedy is.

I love Agatha Christie's works, and I sometimes love the TV or movie adaptations, in this case, LOVED IT. It's so easy in a film to give away plot elements by focusing too much on certain characters but in this one (one of the few books I hadn't read) I was constantly kept guessing at who the murder was, which is essential in a Christie adaptation, the whole point is to be guessing until the last chapter, or in this case scene, which the film did beautifully. Every single character had a motive or motives to be the murderer and they portrayed that really well, in some films it's really obvious that they are only focusing on one or two people and then throw you a curve ball and present a character that has two minutes screen time and no real personality, and you leave feeling cheated because you never could have guessed or figured it out yourself. The best part in this film was that moment, when the murderer was revealed and I thought 'Of course, I should have seen that'.

Whilst I enjoyed the film and would probably watch it again, it falls in line with a lot of films these days where I seem to be able to predict what is going to happen next i.e Her father is presumed dead? of course he will show up later. She loses a fight in the opening scene? She will have to fight to save her life later. A recording asks her to destroy all research? Naturally she takes it with her. and so on. So as I said I enjoyed the film, even if the tension fulled scenes did nothing for me, I mean, come on, am I really supposed to believe that Lara Croft is going to die 3/4 the way through the film? (waterfall/plane scene) it just means I roll my eyes a lot.

I watched this film and was heartbroken when I has to run to the cinemas bathroom halfway though (large drink), but when I read some reviews people seem to hate this film because 'it's too violent', 'Lawrence is a bad actor', 'I don't like her Russian accent'. These excuses make NO sense to me, if you read the description of the film you know it will be extremely violent, J Lawrence's acting in this was superb, and unless you are Russian or have studied it extensively then shut up about the accent. This film has LOADS of twists and turns that don't make sense until later on, which is great for a spy thriller (I mean isn't that the point?), I hate how so many films these days seem to think that the audience is stupid and need to be force fed every action and thought, show don't tell, isn't that the point of going to see a film instead of reading a book?