Movie review - "Role Play" (2024) **

 I really liked Kaley Cuoco's Meet Cute but this is a disappointment. Nothing wrong with a bit of high concept but she and David Oyelowo don't have much chemistry and the film is flaccid. It gets off to a strong start with a terrific Bill Nighy sequence but once Nighy is killed, when the film should ramp up - police on their tail, kids in danger - it stretches. out. She takes off to Germany, he follows, Nighy is missed as a complication as are the cops and it becomes about Connie Nielsen tamely chasing her. The action sequences are fine nothing more - it's not the film's fault but it also suffers in contrast with Barry which set a new bar for the assassin/something else genre.