A young married couple's life turns upside down after secrets are revealed about each other's past.
Role Play is a prime example of an already not very good movie getting completely broken from it's third act.
Kaley Cuoco is solid here, she gives yet another fun performance. Even if I'm not always a fan of the movies she's in she does manage to give the performance life and that's no exception here. David Oyelowo is also pretty solid as well, his character is quite bland but he manages to make it work for the most part.
Role Play starts out with a plot we have seen plenty of times before a hired killer leading a double life and keeping her family in the dark about it. This concept has been done numerous times before and definitely done better as well, as I said earlier it's mostly Cuoco and Otelowo who keep this movie from completely falling apart during the first two acts of the movie.
However after that the movie crumbles, between an absolutely ridiculous motive, very poor action scenes, a lot of unfunny humor and just incredibly painful dialogue during the third act. Role Play falls so hard on its face that it never gets back up. It's a shame because there were some decent ideas during the first bit of the movie that whether intentional or not was still at least interesting. Taking this whole double life aspect and having symbolize the marriage of Emma (Cuoco) and Dave (Otelowo) is at the very least something, but we aren't given any meaningful development on that and instead get a horrendous ending.
Overall Role Play is terrible, there's decent enough ideas here that might have been done countless times before. But there was still potential to do something great here, but that potential is never met here.
Role Play is available on Amazon Prime Video.
3/10 D-
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