DVD review: The Spy Who Dumped Me

DVD: The Spy Who Dumped Me

Reviewed by: Samantha Keogh

Review made possible by: Empire Entertainment

If it’s a girls night in you’re after, this is the film for you.

Cashier Audrey Stockton spends her birthday upset after being dumped, via text, by her boyfriend Drew.

Her charismatic best friend and roommate, Morgan, convinces her to burn Drew’s things and sends him a text as a heads up.

Suddenly, after numerous attempts to contact him, Drew replies to her text pleading with her not to burn anything.

Turns out Drew is a government agent being pursued by men trying to kill him for something he has hidden among his possessions.

Drew arrives at the apartment and, before being shot, tells Audrey to deliver the drive to someone in Vienna the following day.

In shock from seeing Drew shot, Morgan pushes the shooter out the apartment window, inadvertently killing him.

And, he won’t be the last person they accidentally kill in the ensuing adventure.

The deaths of the two men propels Audrey and Morgan into an unwitting game of international cat and mouse as they run for their lives.

Travelling to Vienna to deliver a plastic statue, they meet myriad parties who are all vying to steal the drive and sell it’s contents, and the woman must figure out who they can trust and what they need to do to stay alive.There are Drew (who they thought was dead) and his “parents”, the CIA, MI6 and some weird little Russian gymnast, Nadedja, all chasing the women as they move from Vienna to Prague, and eventually Amsterdam.

Each them seems to have murderous intent but in the end only one will prove himself trustworthy and help the women escape with not only their drive, but their lives too.

But who will their saviour be?

Played by Mila Kunis (as Audrey) and Kate McKinnon (as Morgan), the success of this duo in staying alive is due more to the strong friendship and complete trust in one another than to any espionage skills they have.

It’s not the best work either actress has ever done, but it is a great chick flick for those times when you just want to kick back with a glass of your favourite cold beverage and enjoy a few cheesy one-liners.