![]() Sadie’s attempts to send Cole home fail, partly because Leveque (Adrien Brody), a disgraced former French intelligence agent turned arms dealer, remains convinced he’s the Taxman. The script could hardly be more schematic in their character breakdowns – he uses his parents’ farm as an excuse to avoid life she uses her work to avoid getting close to anyone – but the charismatic leads sell it. ![]() Cole bumbles his way to the occasional winning move, at one point using a gag-gift cactus as a weapon. Sadie handles herself like a seasoned super-spy, never scared, even in one-against-multitudes situations. That shifts them instantly back to antagonistic banter, notably throughout one of the film’s key roller-coaster action sequences, aboard a colourfully decorated bus, under assault as it careens around the mountainous Khyber Pass in Pakistan.įletcher conducts the high-speed chase more than competently, but it’s the sparks generated by de Armas and Evans that keep it buoyant. She’s the real Taxman, duh, and she’s underwhelmed by his romantic surprise and annoyed by the liability of having to keep him safe while she mows down bad guys. Just as eager torturer Borislov is about to deploy flesh-eating bugs to extract a passcode from Cole, who’s as panicked as he is bewildered, gun-toting Sadie bursts in to rescue him and take out a small army of villains. That turns out to be ill-advised when he follows her to Tower Bridge but gets abducted by a gang of thugs, convinced he’s a CIA golden boy code-named The Taxman. But Cole realises he left his asthma inhaler in Sadie’s backpack and a tracking app attached to the medical device allows him to trace her to London.Ĭole has previously been averse to unplanned trips, but when his mom suggests he should just show up in London to surprise Sadie, he goes for it. At the end of a full day and night of walking and talking slathered in random vocal tracks, Cole is instantly smitten.īack at his parents’ farm the next day, Cole’s mother (Amy Sedaris) and father (Tate Donovan) both seem thrilled that he’s met a woman he thinks might be “the one.” His teasing sister (Lizze Broadway) predicts he’ll scare her off fast with his usual clinginess, and when his stream of texts and emojis to Sadie are ignored, she appears to be right. But neither Sadie’s peak athletic condition nor her basic taste in painters (“I love Monet!”) make him suspect she might not be telling the truth about her job as an art curator. They soak up picturesque Georgetown and race up the Exorcist steps before taking in the National Gallery of Art. He suggests she’d be better off with a low-maintenance cactus, which kicks off a running joke about Cole’s neediness and Sadie’s prickly isolation.ĭespite their initial friction, they go on an impromptu date. farmers’ market when she tries to buy a potted begonia and he refuses to sell it to her after she confesses that she travels too frequently for work to water it as required. De Armas’ Sadie and Evans’ Cole meet cute at a D.C.
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