Deng Xiaoping: A Revolutionary Life
Alexander V. Pantsov and Steven I. Levine
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Deng Xiaoping joined the Chinese Communist movement as a youth and rose in its ranks to become an...
Faces from the Front: Harold Gillies, the Queen's Hospital, Sidcup and the Origins of Modern Plastic Surgery
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Faces from the Front examines the British response to the huge number of soldiers who incurred...
Modern Greece: What Everyone Needs to Know
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Just a few years ago, Greece appeared to be a politically secure nation with a healthy economy....
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
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Extraterrestrial invasion, the earth taken over by omniscient intelligences from Mars, the whole of...
Guerrilla Bob HD
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Play CO-OP Multiplayer on the same iPad, or connect your device to any other iPhone, iPod touch or...
Call Of Battlefield - Fps Online
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OMG! Zombies invade the world and humankind is about to disappear. They are turning every human into...
The Future of Foreign Intelligence: Privacy and Surveillance in a Digital Age
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Since the Revolutionary War, America's military and political leaders have recognized that U.S....
Gareth von Kallenbach (980 KP) rated My Spy (2019) in Movies
Jun 22, 2020
The movie stars Dave Bautista as a C.I.A. agent named JJ. JJ was a former Special Forces member who joined the agency after his military career ended. After an operation does not go as planned; JJ’s boss David Kim (Ken Jeong) questions whether JJ is right for the type of work that is required.
JJ is assigned with an overzealous analyst named Bobbi (Kristen Schaal) to conduct surveillance on a single mother named Kate (Parisa Fitz-Henley) and her nine-year-old daughter Sophie (Chloe Coleman).
Kate Sophie had just moved from Paris and are struggling to adapt to the new situation. It seems that Sophie’s father was deeply involved in all sorts of illegal operations and JJ and Bobbi are keeping an eye on them to see if their uncle attempts to contact them as he’s a key figure in an ongoing plutonium arms deal.
Things take an unexpected turn when the precocious Sophie figures out that their apartment is loaded with surveillance gear and soon tracks it to an adjacent apartment and confronts JJ and Bobbi.
Unwilling to have to admit to his superiors that their cover was blown by a nine-year-old girl; JJ soon becomes Sophie’s new friend as she forces him to take her ice-skating and to appear at a school career day as she is desperate to make friends following her move.
This arrangement causes issues with Bobbi and she believes that JJ needs to be training her in the finer aspects of his career.
Further complicating matters is a growing attraction between JJ and Kate thanks to Sophie repeatedly finding ways for her mother and JJ to be together.
While most viewers will be able to see where the film is heading; the enjoyable cast and the chemistry between them makes the movie rise above standard family comedies.
Bautista does a great job poking fun at his action persona and clearly showed in his “Guardians of the Galaxy” performances that he is certainly capable of mixing comedy and action.
While the film does not offer much in the way of surprises; it does offer some very charming and enjoyable moments with enough humor to make it an enjoyable viewing experience for the entire family.
3.5 stars out of 5
Healing Sexually Betrayed Men and Boys: Treatment for Sexual Abuse, Assault, and Trauma
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Healing Sexually Betrayed Men and Boys is the new authoritative source for treatment of men and boys...