Three improv actors are hired to do some low level undercover work for the police. But their improvisation leads them to accidentally infiltrate a major faction of London's criminal underworld.
Have you ever sat through a movie waiting for the laughs to happen? That's was my experience with Deep Cover. Watching it with a group of friends, I was expecting the room to be filled with laughter, even if it was just at the ridiculousness of it all. But it never happened. There were some occasional smirks, that was it. And having finished watching it, the general consensus was that the movie is "watchable".
It's a pretty standard story that aims for the usual sort of laughs. You certainly don't expect a movie like this to reinvent the wheel. However, the impressive cast do a pretty good job of setting the scene without ever trying to properly invest you in the story. Trouble is it's all painfully predictable. There are absolutely no surprises in store. And the absence of laughs certainly doesn't help either. In fact, the one thing that did grip me throughout was trying to figure out why they'd tried to make Sean Bean look like Gary Oldman in Slow Horses.
Omid Djalili is totally wasted in a cameo appearance that is almost devoid of humour. While writers Ben Ashenden and Alexander Owen have this mildly annoying odd couple double act as two police officers investigating the strange goings on in an eerily traffic-free London. But it's ok because none of the villains - all of whom behave in rather odd/convenient ways - are remotely sinister, no matter how hard the actors try.
Even the lead trio's antics seem to peak at mildly amusing. The highlights of which include Marlon (Orlando Bloom) playing muscle man 'Roach' discovering that playing a tough guy and being one, are two entirely different things. As well as the rather nervous Hugh (Nick Mohammed)'s 'The Squire' unintentionally bonding with Professional killer, 'Shosh' (Sonoya Mizuno). And, of course, Kat (Bryce Dallas Howard)'s frantic 'in-character' intervention - don’t ask. But it’s nowhere near as funny as it should be.
A comedy crime caper that despite the best efforts of all those involved, isn't all that funny.
3/10
Deep Cover is available to view on Amazon Prime Video.
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