Deep Cover is an action-comedy with an improvisatory twist
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When I first saw that “Deep Cover” was the third most popular movie on Prime Video right now, I initially thought Bill Duke’s 1992 tough-as-nails neo-noir starring Laurence Fishburne and Jeff Goldblum was finding a new audience. While you can rent Duke’s film via the service, it’s a completely different “Deep Cover” that’s drawing eyeballs.
This brand new film stars Bryce Dallas Howard as a stand-up comic and improv teacher who’s asked to assemble a team of actors capable of helping the Metropolitan Police carry out sting operations. These amateurs, of course, wind up getting in way over their heads, at which point they find their lives are very much in jeopardy.
This sounds like a big-budget variation on Richard Linklater’s excellent “Hit Man” from last year, and why wouldn’t you want to give it a shot when it’s got a cast that includes Orlando Bloom, Nick Mohammed, Ian McShane, Paddy Considine and Sean Bean (place your bets on whether his character survives to the end credits)? Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connolly (“Safety Not Guaranteed,” “Jurassic World”) came up with the idea, and the British comedy duo of Ben Ashenden and Alexander Owen (aka The Pin) wrote the screenplay. The film currently holds a 92% Fresh rating at Rotten Tomatoes, which, if this sounds like your kind of action-comedy, should merit a watch.
So, round up your friends and family and enjoy what could be the streaming sleeper hit of the summer.
