With the aid of Susan Cooper, his controller back in ‘Langley’, Fine makes his getaway by speedboat, across Lake Balaton. Originally excavated as quarries in the 1700s, the caves were repurposed to store beer – though at various times they have been used as emergency shelters and even hidden hangars for Nazi aircraft. Its cellar, where he accidentally shoots the only person who knows the whereabouts of a rogue nuclear weapon, is a labyrinth of limestone caves that stretches some 23 miles underneath the Dreher Brewery in Buda. The ‘Bulgarian’ villa on the ‘Black Sea’, where agent Bradley Fine ( Jude Law) ducks out of the fancy cocktail party to snoop around the basement, is on the north shore of Lake Balaton.
The action ranges from ‘DC’ to ‘Paris’ and ‘Rome’ but, apart from a couple of scene-setting shots, was filmed in Budapest, Hungary, which finally gets to appear as itself in the final third of the film.
The film’s big idea is to kill off the tuxedoed agent early on and, with the identities of remaining operatives compromised, backroom spook Susan Cooper ( McCarthy) gets the opportunity to put her expertise into action in the field.
A James Bond spoof is probably not the most original of ideas, and the lazily functional title doesn’t bode well, but the Paul Feig- Melissa McCarthy- Rose Byrne team delivers the requisite amount of fun.
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