Generic Title is a pretty mediocre movie that often tried to convince me it was good. Mainly through fairly obvious punched up dialog designed to make certain characters more fun. But the core of the film… not so good.

It takes place years after a possibly more interesting story about a pair of shadow operators (Kerry Washington and Omar Sy) fall in love… which is against the shadowy rules of this shadowy organization. He inadvertently comes back onto the radar of their former shadowy boss (Mark Strong) who sets his other shadowy agents onto them.

Generic Title is the wrong half of the story. Maybe if they told the backstory first and made this flick a sequel, it might have worked. All I know is that its pretty bland because we don’t know or care about what we’ve missed.

It’s a bland story as told through a family comedy action flick. There’s a lot of “aww how cute” moments with their little boy and sometimes it genuinely works. Meanwhile, the shadowy boss seems generic at first until they randomly put him into scenes with quirky dialog to make him haha funny. Like he’s suddenly in a totally different movie. It feels like a writer was brought on to breath life into a dull script but only punched up some quirky dialog but not the actual story.

Some of the action near the end of the film is good… until it keeps going and going (we could have gotten to the end without the boat chase, thank you very much). There’s an early chase with a supercar that doesn’t land at all… which is unfortunate because it’s a slick looking vehicle.

So much of this film is trying to tell the second half of a possibly better story. So much of this film fails to land what it’s trying to do. No, Generic Title is a misfire from the screenplay level up. It sometimes amused me but mostly it just bored me.

Score: 70