My Cultural Diet

Kat is a down-on-her-luck comedian stuck teaching improv classes. Marlon is a struggling actor who desperately wants to be taken seriously. And Hugh’s a meek office worker whose “soft skills” are sorely lacking. They’re failures on their own, but their improv talents prove surprisingly useful when a cop needs help with a simple sting operation. Unfortunately, our trio’s a little too good at improv, and they soon find themselves in way over their heads in London’s criminal underground. It’s a fun premise and Deep Cover is certainly entertaining, but I found myself wondering why I wasn’t laughing harder on more than one occasion. (Maybe I should just rewatch Key and Peele’s Keanu.) That said, I’m very tempted to give Deep Cover an extra half star just for Orlando Bloom’s performance as Marlon, the wannabe Brando who constantly turns the method acting up to eleven and gets far more intense than any given situation merits.

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