Film Review – My Spy the Eternal City

“My Spy the Eternal City” (which used to have a colon in its title until just this week) is a sequel to 2020’s “My Spy,” which was an overly aggressive, decidedly unfunny movie meant to soften star Dave Bautista’s screen image. It was his “Kindergarten Cop,” blending heavy violence with softer moments of child guardianship, allowing the bulky star to showcase something more than simple hostility on screen. The feature pinballed around theatrical release dates before finally landing streaming distribution during the early days of COVID-19, and a captive audience must’ve materialized for the endeavor, because now there’s more. Bautista and most of the original cast returns for another round of superspy activity, and Peter Segal once again directs. “My Spy” was a rough sit with the weirdest sense of its primary audience, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, “Eternal City” is more of the same, offering families(?) hard PG-13 material and a dismal level of humor as the tale travels to Italy for the same old save-the-world stuff. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com