Deep Cover (Amazon Prime - 2025)
This laugh-out-loud gem couldn't have come along at a better time......while we cringe watching our lunatic Toddler-In-Chief repeatedly soil his diapers with hourly meltdown tantrums.
Since the U.S. nuclear arsenal sits in the hands of a bawling, insane infant, we might as well enjoy a good laugh before we all head for Kingdom Come, right?
And here's the perfect comic salve to calm our nerves......behold a motley trio of London losers-in-life recruited to pose as drug kingpins looking for a big score.
Expatriate American Kat (Bryce Dallas Howard) runs an Improv school as she struggles to find acting roles. Painfully shy, introverted cubicle toiler Hugh (Nick Mohammed) signs up for her class, hoping to boost his total lack of self confidence. Not suffering from confidence issues is mostly unemployed actor Marlon (Orlando Bloom), whose auditions go awry due to his method-acting intensity and overly fierce dedication to his craft
This oddball group, desperate for attention (and cash) signs on as undercover actors under the supervision of hard-boiled police detective Billings (Sean Bean).Their unlikely mission - use their performing skills to convince notorious dealer Fly (Paddy Considine) they're badasses lookin' to make a major drug deal.....(and give Billings the chance to permanently swat Fly).
From this point on, prepare to laugh yourself silly, as the Improv team's hapless efforts increasingly spiral out of control....and outrageous plot twists make their dire encounters with London's most murderous thugs even more harrowing and delightfully absurd.
Howard functions mostly as a reactive straight woman to the escalating calamities that befall the group but watching her cope becomes a riot in itself. Bloom goes all out in striking comedic gold, as his gangster confrontations finally allow him to give his actor-ish excesses full reign. Meanwhile Mohammed collects his own share of priceless moments since the mobsters mistake him for the most dangerous of the improv phony rogues.
Nothing more to describe.....except funny, funny, funny all around.
If the current state of the world's becoming too much for you (and when isn't it?), here's at least a temporary remedy. 4 & 1/2 stars (****1/2).
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