Back in Action Grabs Good Reviews from Entertainment Team

Back in Action was released on Netflix January 17th, 2025. Entertainment staff DaNija Thomas and Cheyenne Seagraves give their opinions on the new movie.
by DaNija Thomas and Cheyenne Seagraves

Cheyenne:
Starting the movie was interesting because we know Emily’s a spy, and then find out she’s pregnant. I think when they stopped being spies to take care of their child, it started getting a little corny. For instance, when Emily and Matt were getting their kids' breakfast, they were talking about how their kids are always on their phones. I hate when movies do this because they try too hard to make it seem like real life. Another time when she pulled out the binoculars to see her daughter with a boy was a little too much.

I liked the music choices though, Doechii, and Lauryn Hill and some other artists. I didn’t like the club scene when everyone was trying to make the daughter, Alice, stay at the club. That was insane, and no one would ever act like that. Then the shooting in broad daylight in the nice neighborhood they live in was crazy. I always wonder, “Where are the police?!” in these types of movies. The plot twists, like with their friend faking his death right in front of them, and then ending up being the bad guy. I really believed that he was dead, and another time when he kidnapped their kids. I also thought the grandma was funny and the fact that she had such a young boyfriend was weird and how he wanted the kids to call him grandpa.

​In general, I thought this was a really good movie. it was funny, I liked the action, the cinematography of it all was really cool, an overall easy watch. I'd definitely watch it again, and definitely recommend it if you like action comedy movies. I enjoyed seeing Cameron Diaz make her comeback and seeing Jamie Foxx in this movie. It never explained why the cover was the same as Knight & Day with her and Tom Cruise, maybe because it’s just another spy movie or maybe I missed it. 

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Danija:
I really loved this movie. I think because it’s an action movie is why I love it so much. Like Cheyenne said in the beginning of the movie when they were at breakfast I kinda found that part a little corny. I hated the way Alice, the daughter, was treating her mother and it seemed like she hated her mother. I also didn’t like how sneaky Alice was. I just feel as if she would’ve asked her parents or something instead of messing around with it, then maybe they wouldn’t have gotten kidnapped in the first place.

The most shocking part of the movie is when this guy Chuck turned out to be one of the bad guys and someone who was setting up Matthew and Emily. Because when he showed up at their doorstep saying that they were in trouble and the men shot him, I really thought he died but turned out he was the one who told them to shoot him and had something to block the bullet from hitting his neck. One part I loved about this movie is when Emily and her mother made up and also when Alice starts showing more love towards her mother. I just feel as having a mother and daughter relationship is super important and something most teenage girls really look forward to as they get older.

I feel like there will be another part to this movie because at the end how the movie went off is Baron is sitting in Emily and Matthew’s car. He explains to them that Chuck's body was never found in the boat incident. So I feel as if there will be a part 2 coming because I need to know what happened with that body or if he jumped off the boat before it crashed. I recommend this movie so much, and I really enjoyed watching it.