肉眼でもレーダーでも捉えられないインビジブル機能搭載の最新型ステルス戦闘機“スイッチブレイド”。米国が極秘に開発したこの戦闘機がある日、何者かに盗まれる。そしてそれは武器商人ガンダーズの手に渡っていた。彼は、ハンガリーのブダペストで行われるボクシングのタイトル・マッチの前夜パーティを自邸で開催する裏で、戦闘機の入札を行おうと企てる。これに対し米国の国家保安局BNSは、戦闘機の奪回をスペシャル・エージェントのアレックスに命じ、その相棒として何とタイトル戦に出場する無敗のボクサー、ケリーを指名するのだった。
製作費: $70,000,000 (105億円)
興行収入: $51,386,477 (77億円)
推定収支: $-18,613,523 (-28億円)
※製作費・興行収入はTMDBのデータを参照しています。収支は(興行収入 - 製作費)で算出したFindKey独自の推定値であり、広告宣伝費や諸経費は含まれません (1ドル=150円換算)。
監督: Betty Thomas
脚本: David Ronn / Marianne Wibberley / Cormac Wibberley
音楽: Richard Gibbs
制作: Betty Thomas / Mario Kassar / マーク・トベロフ
撮影監督: Oliver Wood
制作会社: Columbia Pictures / Tall Trees Productions / C2 Pictures / Sheldon Leonard Productions
Hadn't seen this since it was released on DVD and... pretty much remember it being as mediocre as it was back then. Normally with these buddy films, you have one character who is off-kilter while the other is more serious, but here you had both off-kilter. Had this been today, would've been a good opportunity to be a spoof of Mission: Impossible; cast a normally serious actor to play opposite the outlandish character. **3.0/5**
Annoying watch, probably won't watch again, and can't recommend. I like Eddie Murphy, I usually depend on him to carry movie given he's such a big personality. Unfortunately the character he is playing is every bit as annoying as Owen Wilson and that is amplified as, like I said, Eddie Murphy is a big personality and this character doesn't call for any nuance. Malcolm MacDowell does a his great creepy villain vibe, and Famke Janssen ("Golden Eye": Xenia Onatopp) makes a great spy: I wish she had done more of it. The majority of this movie is Eddie Murphy and Owen Wilson playing some stupid characters and getting into situations that they can barely handle most of the time. It definitely doesn't feel like a "spy movie" the same way that someone knocking over a set of steel plate armor doesn't. This is much closer to an action-comedy, maybe similar to "Rush Hour", but not as good. I'm not saying there isn't anything to enjoy here, I'm just saying you can flip through Eddie Murphy's filmography to find a better movie, and there are a lot of other movies out there to see.
