FILM
DEEP COVER
THE DEPARTED MEETS WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY?
Should have gone for the Uber Exec.
The joke falls flat.
★★★★
OUT 12 JUNE (PRIME VIDEO) / CERT 18 / 100 MINS
DIRECTOR Tom Kingsley
CAST Bryce Dallas Howard, Orlando Bloom, Nick Mohammed, Paddy Considine, Ian McShane, Sean Bean, Sonoya Mizuno
PLOT Three struggling improv comedians are hired by the police for low-level sting operations. They quickly find themselves in way over their heads.
THERE’S AN INGENIOUS thought at the centre of Deep Cover: if undercover work is, effectively, Method acting, what would happen if you put an improv group — whose very instinct is to ‘yes, and’ a situation — into minor sting operations? Tom Kingsley’s comedy feature not only commits conceptually to that idea — it does so structurally, too, barrelling forward as it throws our heroes into situations of increasing danger and absurdity.