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?”

The actors had each other’s backs as she returned to the screen and he recovered from a stroke, according to director Seth Gordon.

Netflix has released a new original movie that has immediately rocketed to #1 on the service, but is Back in Action with Cameron Diaz worth watching?

Back in Action stars Foxx and Diaz as former CIA spies Matt and Emily, "Years after giving up life as CIA spies to start a family, Emily and Matt find themselves dragged back into the world of espionage when their cover is blown," an official synopsis explains.

"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.

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.

“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.

After focusing on motherhood and taking a decade-long break from her acting career, Cameron Diaz has returned to screens with the action-comedy Back In Act..

Flash forward 15 years. and the couple, having gone underground, live in a comfy suburban house with two lovely (and barely annoying) teenagers. Matt coaches the soccer team. The teens, Alice and Leo (McKenna Roberts and Rylan Jackson, both appealing), are not aware of their parents’ high-flying past; Matt and Emily want their lives to be normal.

An enjoyable, if unremarkable, popcorn flick that’s worth a watch for fans of the leads and those craving an easygoing action-comedy.