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2015 "Everyone's getting smoked."
6.1| 1h36m| R| en| More Info
Released: 21 August 2015 Released
Producted By: Lionsgate
Country: United States of America
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Mike is an unmotivated stoner whose small-town life with his live-in girlfriend, Phoebe, is suddenly turned upside down. Unbeknownst to him, Mike is actually a highly trained, lethal sleeper agent. In the blink of an eye, as his secret past comes back to haunt him, Mike is thrust into the middle of a deadly government operation and is forced to summon his inner action-hero in order to survive.

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Acensbart Excellent but underrated film
Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one
utahdarkhorse Eisenburgs emo virgin character was only slightly annoying when he was actually young enough to play it. But he's 35 years old and this ridiculous, spineless character he's playing got old about 30 seconds in. Half a movie later, it's still there. Couldn't watch any more.
Charles Herold (cherold) I really enjoyed this movie. It starts a little slow, but once the leading schlub discovers he's a superweapon, well, things get pretty entertaining, with lots of intense, crazy action involving guns, spoons, and frying pans.This is very much a movie that doesn't want to give you time to stop and think about the story. If you do stop you'll definitely see some issues; for example, the reason given to shut down the original program should still be a problem, but it's just ... not. That's so lazy.But as mindless fun goes, this is a really good example of it. It's also amusing with a surprisingly sweet romance at the heart of it. Torn between giving this a 7 or 8, but because of the less-than-sensible parts I'll go with 7.
MJB784 The story was confusing, the action scenes didn't have a clear tone and I didn't laugh much. Probably the worst movie I've seen this year. Certainly the worst this summer.
dissident320 I had sort of ignored this movie. I had seen the trailers and knowing it starred the wonderfully charismatic Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart had kept me away. But it has remained on Netflix so my curiosity got the best of me.It's not terrible but perplexingly devoid of fun. Casting Jesse as a stoner sleeper agent seemed to be a opportunity for him to play against his usual type. But they never really do anything with it. He smokes pot, he does some fighting but not much. Most of the movie just plods along with a tremendous amount of exposition with other characters. Connie Britton is essentially a plot device and Topher Grace is the scrappy CIA guy trying to climb the ladder. He calls her a lot of names.This movie is quite violent which would be fine if they were going for dark comedy. But the tone comes across as just a straight up action movie. It never goes goofy enough to be a comedy or any over the top action to make it fun.Boring leads and a mostly boring plot. Topher Grace seems to be having fun but operates pretty far out of the tone of the rest of the movie. Overall this movie is bad without being bad enough to laugh at.