In Role Play, Emma Brackett is a seemingly successful wife and mother with two children. But Emma also harbours a secret.
Unbeknown to her husband Dave, Emma is an assassin. The couple have been married seven years, but Emma has never revealed who she really is, and continues to maintain her cover at all times.
However, Emma’s secret vocation is having an impact on her home life. She forgets her anniversary and this is causing potential issues in the marriage, which Emma is becoming more aware of.
After Dave attempts to spice things up in the bedroom, by buying Emma a saucy nurses outfit, Emma proposes an alternative option. She suggests the pair indulge in a spot of role play, where they meet up in the city, pretend to be strangers who bump into each other, and have a wild, unforgettable night together.
But when Dave gets caught in traffic, and is late to their rendezvous, Emma meets inquisitive businessman, Bob Kellerman. But Bob is no mere businessman – he’s a fellow assassin, and he recognises Emma.
After making Emma aware of his identity, Bob attempts to blackmail her. This escalates further, resulting in Emma’s secret life being exposed to other assassins, as well as to her husband, and this puts her whole family in danger.
Directed by Thomas Vincent, Role Play is an action thriller starring Kaley Cuoco, David Oyelowo, and Bill Nighy. The movie is new to stream on Amazon Prime Video from today, and is… *sigh* …an underwhelming, lacklustre picture, which drags on for one-hour-and-forty-one minutes.
One-hour-and-forty-one minutes, and almost every single second is boring. This film doesn’t entertain, it just exists.
Role Play is torture. It’s actual torture, which Amazon have somehow convinced subscribers to pay for.
Kaley Cuoco and David Oyelowo are usually top value, but in this movie they have no charisma, no personality, and zero chemistry together. The pair go through the motions, with her pretending not to be an assassin, him finding out the truth, and so on, and so on.
Every once in a while, Cuoco will don a new wig, to hide her identity and…
…and do you know what? I can’t even be bothered to explain any more story details.
I know, I know, it’s my job to sit through films, be them good or bad, and deliver an informative review, but Role Play is testing my limits. Maybe it’s the result of me falling over this week, and causing myself a (minor) injury, but today I just don’t have the patience for twaddle like this.
So let me ask you, what do you want to know? Do you want to know if this movie is any good? Well, then no, it’s not. Role Play is rubbish.
It’s unoriginal; there’s a weird, lifeless atmosphere throughout the film; and the longer you watch it, the more it saps the very essence from your soul. If you manage to get through twenty minutes of this rubbish without wishing Death will come and take you, congratulations you deserve a medal.
In fact, Amazon should give out awards to anyone who makes it to the end of the picture in one sitting. At the very least, there should be a subscription refund for crap like this, or possibly 10% off your next purchase of an air fryer.
The movie industry has a big problem at the moment. It keeps churning out dull, repetitive films, which are devoid of life and simply fill up space on streaming services.
These films cost money to make, they offer no creativity, and they are causing audiences to lose interest in the industry as a whole. Role Play is far from the worst example of this, but it is yet another one to toss on the pile, and its mere existence is tiresome.
*Sigh*
I don’t want to turn this review into a rant about the industry, as that’s unfair to centre such a discussion around Role Play. And in fairness to Role Play, despite it being a snooze-fest, and tonally all over the place, there are far worse things to watch.
But this is crap. It’s just crap.
It’s crap because it offers nothing new, nothing you haven’t seen before, and nothing worth giving up your time for. Just don’t bother.
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