Spy

This was a great film, one that will be enjoyed by most.
Susan Cooper (Melissa McCarthy) is an agent for the Central Intelligence Agency but she works behind the scenes. She's the voice is star agent's Bradley Fine's (Jude Law's) ear. Susan is also harboring a major crush on him so she is devastated when he is murdered on the job. Bradley may not have been the best agent-he killed the only man who knew where a nuclear bomb was because he sneezed, having not taken his allergy medicine, but Susan is out for blood.
She begs her boss, Elaine Crocker (Allison Janney) for a field position and Elaine reluctantly relents. So with various frumpy disguises, Susan is in the field, out to report on De Luca (Bobby Cannavale), an Italian who is close with Raina (Rose Bryne). Raina is the daughter of the guy Bradley killed and she has custody of the bomb.
Fortunately, Susan has a rogue agent, Rick Ford (Jason Statham) trailing her because he doesn't believe that she is capable of field work. Susan is fine, though she does throw up all over her first dead body. However, then Susan also goes rogue, following Raina and saying that Raina's dad hired Susan to be Raina's bodyguard. This is after Susan saved Raina from being roofied. Raina doesn't trust anyone though so she drugs Susan right back, with Susan's true identity fortunately still in tact.
The rest of the film contains tons of double spies and twists and turns, too many to recount them accurately. But suffice to say, that Bradley is still alive posing as Raina's boyfriend to stay alive. Susan saves the day despite Ford showing up at the last minute, she is the one throwing the punches and literally firing the shots. McCarthy has tons of difficult stunts, including the finale where she is hanging off a helicopter.
In the end, the nuclear bomb is secure and Elaine wants to keep Susan out in the field. Bradley tries to take Susan out to dinner, but she shuts him down gently, saying that she would prefer a girl's night.
Although the plot is great, this film is truly funny. Most of the credit does go to McCarthy though she has great support from Statham, Law, Bryne, Janney and Miranda Hart (Chummy from Call the Midwife). Hart is Nancy, another basement agent, and Susan's best friend. Nancy gets some great laughs when she attacks 50 Cent (she adds piece to that) at one of his concert's, but fortunately he's game and even lets her borrow his helicopter to save Susan's butt. The two have a great friendship, cemented by Nancy saving that Susan needs champagne and beef jerky at the end.
There are many great lines and parts of the film, like when Susan almost eats a cloth wipe at a fancy restaurant that Bradley took her to because Burger King was full. Then, she tries to do the same thing at a restaurant in Rome and it turns out to be actual food. Susan doesn't know anything about wines but doesn't call Bradley out when he assumes that she has cats at home. The office also is filled with rats, though they don't seem to be carrying any diseases, thank goodness.
Despite everything going well, they add an end scene which sort of ruins the film. Ford is driving off in a small boat, wanting to explore Europe, not realizing that he's in a lake which is fine. Neither guy truly appeared Susan and even though she longs for an actual relationship, marriage and family, you don't think that she's going to be with either one of them. Then the end scene comes along with her waking up after a night with Ford, not pleased with herself, only to have the pompous Ford respond, informing her that she enjoyed it. The feminist film has a masculine ending.
This definitely a complete film, perhaps a perfect date film, with tons of action and humor. I loved all of McCarthy's disguises, flawlessly moving between them with ease. Her performance anchors the film. The cinematography, editing and everything is great, but that ending sort of ruined it for me. Not enough to majorly impact the grade but enough for me to over-analyze the whole thing. Grade: B+