"Back in Action" is Cameron Diaz's first film in over ten years. Unfortunately, her and Jamie Foxx's star power isn't enough to save it.

Back in Action director Seth Gordon spoke to ComingSoon about the new Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz Netflix movie. The Horrible Bosses director discussed the film’s opening plane scene, shared a spin-off idea,

Back in Action director Seth Gordon was a few beers deep at a Dodgers game in 2019, when he started joking about a fake movie he called Baby Bjorn Identity. “What happen if Jason Bourne had kids? Would he have to quit the business?” Gordon asked his friend, movie producer Beau Bauman. “Or what if it was Mr. and Mrs. Smith, not Jason Bourne?”

As married CIA operatives who dropped out and have to come back, Foxx and Diaz anchor a Netflix product-of-the-week movie where nothing's at stake.

“Back in Action” is Diaz’s first film since 2014’s “Annie,” which she also starred in alongside Foxx. The Oscar-winner and the “Charlie’s Angels” alum first worked together in Oliver Stone’s 1999 sports drama “Any Given Sunday.”

As “Back in Action” goes through its paces, you’ll find echoes of such films as the Bob Odenkirk-starring “Nobody” and the Mark Wahlberg vehicle “The Family Plan,” as well as “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” and even a little of “Knight and Day,” which starred Diaz and that Tom Cruise fella.

But she's on-screen relatively briefly. And while it's good to see Diaz, an underappreciated actor, back in the movies, the script does her no favors. Foxx gives off "I'm just here for the paycheck" vibes.

Her new Netflix movie, 'Back in Action,' isn't great. But if it means there’s more Cameron Diaz in our future, let’s take it.

Jamie Foxx hyped Cameron Diaz up on the set of Netflix's "Back in Action," her first film in more than a decade after she retired from Hollywood.

Despite some illogical moments, Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx's performances make "Back in Action" an enjoyable family film.

We should all have as much fun going back to work as Cameron Diaz does in the appropriately titled “Back in Action,” the actress’s first movie since “Annie” in 2014.