June 30

I have been a fan of improv comedy for decades. From the Christopher Guest films to Whose Line is it Anyway, I have always lapped up improv. So seeing the synopsis of this movie with improv at the heart of it, I was in on Deep Cover.

Sadly, this was a scripted improv comedy/adventure that flied in the face of the artform.

The cast was interesting with Bryce Dallas Howard, Orlando Bloom and Ted Lasso’s Nick Mohammed. Toss in Sean Bean and Ian McShane to make this cast pretty good.

The main three characters are tossed into a story in London criminal underworld by the police to try to use their improv skills under cover.

I just did not grasp this film. As I said, the idea that the improv is all scripted makes it feel too forced. It seemed all they really had was “Yes, and…” and it did not work for me.

2.4 stars

With that, the June Swoon 4: Two a Day comes to a close. Thirty days and sixty movies! I avoided using any in the theater movies for the “It’s Now” films even though I had set the precedent up that I could. The two a day format was harder than I thought it would be. The last week or so got harder to find the movies to watch and I got in a stretch where there were some bad films. Thankfully, I broke out of that run and finished better.