Rated: R - Runtime: 115 min
tesg's Rating: Two and one half stars (out of four)
McCarthy kind of plods along for the first part of the movie as a dopey analyst who everybody has
pigeonholed as a cat lady ("I don't have a cat!" she repeatedly notes.) She ends up in the field dressed up like Shelly Winters in "The Poseidon Adventure" and frumps her way through until she saves Rose Byrne's character, at which point she suddenly turns into a kick-ass foul-mouthed field agent. There's no subtle evolution...it just happens.
Which is to say it gets better as it goes. Jason Statham is hilarious in this. Jude Law and Allison Janney are also standouts.
Not a great flick, but it's campy fun, probably the best that could be expected.