Ten years after she seemingly hung it up for good, Cameron Diaz returns to the big-screen—or, at least, Netflix—with Back in Action, an action-comedy that pairs her with her Annie co-star Jamie Foxx. She should have stayed retired.
A drearily formulaic comeback vehicle that’s been sitting on a shelf for nearly two years and boasts not a single original, amusing, or exciting moment, director Seth Gordon’s feature is a hodgepodge of the hoariest of clichés, none of which have been fresh since the 1980s and most of which have to do with underlining the fact that—no matter their entry into middle age—its stars remain as sexy, funny, and desirable as ever. Diaz and Foxx still got it, the film constantly screams. The evidence on display, however, suggests otherwise.