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Matt Roush says...

An unusually warm-hearted Cold War action-comedy stars Ryan Reynolds as Troy Kelly, a cocky Navy pilot — codenamed “Assassin,” but not why you’d think — who has the bad luck of his spy plane being shot down over Soviet enemy territory while executing a covert mission for the CIA. But in a stroke of good luck, he’s rescued by Nikolai “Call me Nick” Ustinov (a heavily bearded Kenneth Branagh), a disillusioned former KGB agent who has a secret crush on all things American, especially Top Gun. Their bromance blossoms on a madcap slapstick chase through 1987 Russia that involves planes, trains, automobiles, and even a massive rocket launcher.

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