Grimsby Film Review

Finished watching Grimsby directed by Louis Leterrier and staring Sacha Baron Cohen, Rebel Wilson, Mark Strong, Penélope Cruz and Isla Fisher. The film opens up with Nobby Butcher (Sacha Baron Cohen) and his girlfriend (Rebel Wilson) at a local bed shop were they purchase a new mattress. Back at home a hand full of Nobby's kids complain about being over crowded in their room even with an empty room in the house that Nobby as left in case his long lost brother comes back home. Meanwhile MI6 agent Sebastian Butcher (Mark Strong) completes a mission in Uganda when his bosses give him a new mission to stop the assassination of humanitarian Rhonda George (Penélope Cruz). The mission goes south when Nobby intervenes leading to Sebastian going on the run form the MI6 and try's to clear his name with the help of Nobby and Sebastian's assistant Jodie Figgis (Isla Fisher) back at the headquarters of MI6. Overall this was a decent film as it blends together the action and comedy genres extremely well. The action scenes are great as they are choreographed extremely well thanks to a continuous point of view shot that only cuts away to show a birds eye view of the action by a drone overhead which makes the scenes very suspenseful. The interactions and backstory between Nobby and Sebastian is great throughout the film the as the two rekindle their relationship after being separated years prior and some of the interactions being some nice comedy moments with how the two react to situations the other has put them in. While the comedy itself is fairly hit or miss throughout the film as the jokes that work are really great while the ones that don't hit their mark and are very cringeworthy. 6/10.