FLIM
BACK IN ACTION
DON’T CALL IT A CAM-BACK
Sharp shooters Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz.
★★★
OUT NOW (NETFLIX) / CERT 12 / 114 MINS
DIRECTOR Seth Gordon
CAST Jamie Foxx, Cameron Diaz, Glenn Close, Andrew Scott, Jamie Demetriou
PLOT When their cover is blown, two former CIA agents (Foxx, Diaz) ditch their domestic life and go on the run with their children.
YOU HAVE TO imagine that Back In Action began with its casting, and worked everything else —that apt title, the corresponding premise —backwards from there. Because those three words apply most directly to the film’s A-list star: Cameron Diaz, returning to the screen for the first time in over a decade, on hiatus since 2014’s Annie remake. Back in action, indeed.