Long Shot

Director Jonathan Levine’s Long Shot is a mostly hilarious and raunchy comedy in which a cantankerous reporter (Seth Rogan) and the current the Secretary of State (Charlize Theron) pick up their childhood almost-relationship, when she at 16 was his at 13 babysitter.

I say “mostly” because the audience needs some time-outs to recover from belly laughs.

And, of course, it’s so highly improbable.  But, that’s what makes it so incredibly funny.  And, that’s because Charlize Theron gives, arguably, her best performance to date, being both augustly cool and “proper,” yet convincingly vulnerable and silly.   

If you’re lucky enough to have fellow audience members, who are enjoying the antics as much as you are, you might walk out with new friends, as well.

Thank you Dan Sterling and Liz Hannah for a wonderfully inventive script.

If you want to have a lot of fun, see Long Shot. I give it a 4.1 out of 5.