There is a very serious problem in Role Play: Kaley Cuoco. After the delightful series The Flight Attendant, it seems that the actress enjoyed being a CIA agent with international missions because the film looks like a sequel to the series. On the other hand, as I said, The Flight Attendant was great, so the Amazon Prime Video film is a great distraction option at the beginning of the year.

The original title – Role Play – means ‘pretend to be someone’, which is a game that many couples (at least in fiction) like to do to rekindle their sexual life, where they pretend to be other people in the sex search. In this case, there is the literal use of the term as well as a hint of what Emma, Kaley Cuoco‘s character, does with her husband, David (David Oyelowo), without him suspecting.

Emma has a dream life, traveling for work across the United States, but always returning to David and her two children, who live in a quiet house in New Jersey. However, it’s all a facade. In fact, Emma is an assassin for hire, one of the most lethal on the market. The problem begins when to spice up the relationship, she agrees to go with David to a hotel in Manhattan, where, at the bar, they will pretend to be other people (role play). But once there, Emma is identified by a mysterious man (Bill Nighy) who knows about her double life and who accepts the price on her head. In other words, when trying to kill Emma, he forces her to kill him and so David is suddenly drawn into a world of spies, assassins, and lies, with Emma at the center of it all. To save him and escape alive, she needs to escape both the authorities and other criminals, but David is willing to do anything to save his wife.

In other words, with the charisma of its stars, the film holds up. Kaley is more of the same, but David Oyelowo, who was already nominated for an Oscar for the film Selma, rarely does comedy and it’s great fun to see him in a lighter role. Likewise, as in the series, Emma’s escape is the perfect excuse to travel the world, which happens, naturally.

I would love to praise the film more, which is an afternoon movie session. The point is that Kaley, an accomplished comedian, is reinventing herself as an adventure actress, but I don’t know if it convinces or sustains that much. In this case, it doesn’t hurt. In search of distraction, one more tip!

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