Seth Gordon's latest attempt at high profile frivolity falls short of the meager promise in its generic title with this boring misfire cobbling together recycled elements of black action choreography and hokey comedy.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 20, 2025

Regardless of the fact that this Netflix action comedy isn’t the most original movie you’ve ever seen, Back in Action throws an amusing curve or two, and the clever teaming of Cameron Diaz with Jamie Foxx is fun and refreshing.

| Feb 17, 2025

Great chemistry between the lead actors and I had really missed Cameron Diaz.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 6, 2025

A solid action-comedy that proves just how much we’ve missed Cameron Diaz in the last ten years. Next time don’t leave it so long, eh?

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 4, 2025

it’s still almost painful to watch Back in Action abruptly spoil everything that is unique, charming, and witty in its first half for the sake of second-rate spectacle and overfamiliar trope-trading.

| Feb 4, 2025

Back in Action epitomises the Netflix category of “casual viewing”, ie stuff you can have on in the background while you’re washing up.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 4, 2025

The entire cast must have been in need some quick cash because “Back in Action” is not doing any of their resumes any favors.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 2, 2025

While Foxx & Diaz are fun together, they deserve much better material than this derivative schlock of an action flick.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Feb 2, 2025

Not original - it's very much like Mr. & Mrs. Smith...[Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 2, 2025

This is a serviceable comedy that shows off Foxx and Diaz's chemistry, but as a globe-trotting action flick it's unlikely to leave a mark.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 30, 2025

Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx team up for an action-comedy designed meticulously for Gen X

| Jan 30, 2025

Back in Action takes a generic script, plus a notable cast, and it combines them into an uninspiring yet moderately entertaining film that works far better when the focus is on the family dynamic.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jan 30, 2025

It is vivaciously, even triumphantly, OK. If there was an Oscar for Most Adequate Picture, we’d be gearing up for a sweep.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 30, 2025

If you’re in the mood for an escapist action flick, and you’re a fan of these leads, this entertaining movie will not disappoint.

| Original Score: 15/2 | Jan 30, 2025

It’s mindless entertainment when you want something better to reunite Diaz and Foxx. Either lean into the stunts and the gadgets like a Mission Impossible or lean into the tropes and humor like Spy.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 29, 2025

I had just watched Knight and Day again for the millionth time, so I was hopeful that maybe a movie with both Diaz and Jamie Foxx might be decent despite being a January movie on Netflix. I should have known better.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 29, 2025

A limp comeback vehicle that coasts on tired clichés cribbed from better films.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 28, 2025

There's a refreshingly bright tone to this action comedy. So even if the script never bothers to be original, it's entertaining to watch because the cast brings plenty of spark to the screen.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 28, 2025

When the filmmaking is this generic, and the writing this uninspired, you do have to wonder how far we’re away from a movie like this being entirely, and indifferently, generated by AI.

| Jan 26, 2025

The lesson learned is that sometimes it might be better to not get 'back in action' if the film is a stinker.

| Original Score: C | Jan 25, 2025