expected to find another way to present the secret agent movie "The Power Next Door" as a comedy, but it did not present enough joy as expected, and it was difficult to make up the seemingly exaggerated and crazy plot, and it was difficult to really mobilize the audience's emotions , although there is occasional humor, but more is just another taste of Hollywood popcorn routines.
The movie tells the story of a couple who lived an ordinary life and had a boring marriage unintentionally involved in a crisis and had to join forces with the newly moved neighbor agent to fight the enemy. The setting of this plot mode is actually Hollywood. The most traditional partner kung fu film structure, the only difference is that the original two heroes have become two teams of husband and wife, so as to use the contrasting humor of civilians and special agents to form the tension in the plot, but this point is from the point of view of the film, " The two husband-and-wife teams in "The Powerful Spy next door" did not do well. Except for the deliberate yellow jokes, many times there was not much spark between the protagonists of the two teams.
Judging from the lineup, "Power Next Door" not only has the appearance of Wonder Girl Gal Gadot, but also has the leading role of Jon Hamm in "Mad Men". The like-minded agent male protagonist, and there is also Zach Galifianakis, an impressive comedian in "The Hangover", in the civilian file. It can be said that the performance of these actors in the film is not unremarkable. Okay, but the role of Jeff, played by Zach Galifianakis, has almost all the ridiculous jokes in the movie, and the consequence of all these jokes being borne by one person is that Make the characters full of falsehoods.
The most fundamental problem with this movie is that the director doesn't seem to know how to show the two elements of action and comedy that need to be balanced in the same movie. The uncontrollable four-group show has often turned into a one-man show by Zach Galifianakis, so that the whole story seems to be hot and noisy, but the real hope is to highlight family and love. The proposition is particularly pale and empty.
There is no way to deny that this is a work that does have a little laugh and a little moving, but fundamentally speaking, this boring American comedy is enough to be forgotten in the rivers and lakes after three days.
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