The Spy Who Dumped Me

Susanna Fogel’s silly screwball comedy caper mostly wastes the prodigious talent of SNL’s Kate McKinnon. While a shootout takes place at an open-air market in Vilnius, Lithuania, halfway around the world in Los Angeles, Audrey (Mila Kunis) is celebrating her 30th birthday, having just been dumped—via text—by one of the gunmen, Drew (Justin Theroux), a C.I.A. agent who doesn’t want to place Audrey in danger. As Audrey seeks solace with her roommate/BFF Morgan (McKinnon), Drew suddenly crashes through her apartment window, claiming that the fate of the free world depends on delivering a cheap plastic “2nd place” football trophy (containing a USB drive) to someone at a café in Vienna. Determined to complete Drew’s mission by wading knee-deep into dangerous espionage, stoic Audrey and impulsively manic Morgan scamper around Europe on stolen passports—touching down in Vienna, Prague, Paris, and Berlin, and crossing paths with another pair of operatives (Sam Heughan, Hasan Minhaj). Although they call Morgan’s suburban parents (Jane Curtin, Paul Reiser) for help, they wind up being drugged, kidnapped, and tortured by a psychotic Russian gymnast (Ivanna Sakhno). The highlight here is the sarcastic sincerity of Morgan’s skewering of an icy MI6 chief (Gillian Anderson), but Fogel can’t quite pull off the violent, blood-splattered action set pieces in this uneven film. Optional. (S. Granger)