Spy Intervention

By: Mary Watkins

What happens when a spy meets a girl and falls in love? Well, Spy Intervention is a comedy that answers this question…Sort of. This is a spy comedy starring Drew Van Acker and Poppy Delevingne where a spy falls in love with a normal girl and decides that he wants to retire and live a normal boring life with her. He settles into a normal job and lives in a home with a white picket fence. However, reality is way more different then his dream and normal kind of sucks. So, what do you do to make this story line better? You turn it into a comedy. I mean who doesn’t love a good spy comedy? However, sadly, this is not it.

The movie starts out with Corey (Drew Van Acker) jumping out of a plane while on a mission with his best friend and partner Smuts (Blake Anderson). Corey flies through the air with a jet pack and the two make idle conversation. Corey lands on roof and then rushes into a mall where he ends up running over a makeup sales girl named Pam (Poppy Delevingne). He apologizes and she comes back with a snarky remark that catches his attention. They begin to talk all while Smuts is in Corey’s ear trying to remind him of the mission he is currently on. Finally, Corey snaps out of it and continues his mission. So far so good, but then the next thing we see is Corey and Pam on a date. No mention of how long they had been talking, when they started talking, if that is the first date or anything. There is no storyline leading up to this date. Next, they are watching TV, wearing matching hockey jerseys and Corey is telling Smuts that he is going to marry her. Again, no storyline building up to that.

Corey does some kind of drill procedure to his head which I thought was supposed to make him forget he was a spy, while Smuts is trying to convince him not to do. Then, all of a sudden Corey and Pam are married, he works for a cardboard box company and is living an average life. The next thirty or so minutes are Corey and Pam doing mundane things like shopping for lighting and home improvement material. Pam is talking to her best friend Brianna (Brittany Furlan) about her marriage and Corey is talking to Smuts about his marriage and being a spy. When we see that Corey is talking to Smuts about their last mission, they did that’s when we figure out the drill thing didn’t do anything to his memory, so I am not sure what the point of that was. Smuts convinces Corey to come back for one more mission and Corey spends the rest of the movie trying to keep it under wraps so his wife doesn’t find out. Pam thinks he is cheating and follows him to a hotel where she sees Corey with another woman. The other woman is a spy but Pam thinks she is a mistress. A small confrontation is had and the next scene is Pam planning for a dinner party which makes no sense. There is also a weird dance scene with Pam, Corey, the dinner guests and the bad guys. Additionally, we get a fight scene, a breakup, a new relationship, a hookup, a new job and a lot more occurring within the last fifteen minutes of the movie that you have to see to find out about.

As far as the performances in this movie, they are over the top and silly. The acting is too outrageous even for a comedy. The performances remind me of the acting in the Scary Movie films as they make no sense, are over the top, exaggerated and unnecessary. Drew Van Acker is the only one that makes the comedy feel a little less crazy and dramatic. In regards to the film and the cinematography, it could also use improvement. You can tell the movie was a low budget as there are scenes with airplanes that look like they took a toy plane or even that they filmed the person on a green scene and then inserted them into the window of the plane. However, the direction of the movie was well done. You can tell the director Drew Mylrea gave clear direction to his actors and did his best to make the comedy as funny as possible. Even the random, weird, break out dance numbers were executed with meaning.

Overall, my opinion of this movie was not the best. The storyline and idea of the movie is a good one and the film has potential to be a good spy comedy with a little better writing, bigger budget and less dramatic acting. It feels like they worked too hard on trying to sell the story that it ended up just making the whole thing unbearable. The comedy that was intended to be funny wasn’t funny at all while the moments that weren’t supposed to be funny were. Plus, the whole production of the film left me wanting to know what I had just watched. I will say this much though, the best part of the movie was the ending. The ending is probably the one main thing I would not change at all. So, if you are curious as to how the movie ends then you will have to watch and find out, even though I suggest you don’t.