Matchbox The Movie

Matt Roush says...

They can’t all be Barbie. The latest movie inspired by a Mattel toy is a ridiculous but rousing action-comedy with impressive stunt work involving vehicles that spin, flip, and crash — just like we used to do with the Matchbox toy cars of our now-distant childhood. For globe-trotting covert CIA agent Sean (an iron-jawed John Cena), that childhood was back in the late 1990s, when his best friends in Ohio were part of a middle-school “Matchbox gang.” When Sean returns for a nostalgic reunion, he inadvertently involves his pals in international intrigue, getting swept up in a ticking-clock search for a stolen nuclear warhead. Good thing his grown-up gang has special skills: One (Jessica Biel) is a race-car driver, another (Arturo Castro) a science/chemistry teacher, with a helicopter traffic reporter (Teyonah Parris) and her husband, a heavy-equipment operator (Sam Richardson), along for the wild ride.

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