Glenn Close stars in a hit 2025 action thriller on Netflix, and the movie redeems her role in a film on the streaming service from two years ago.

Netflix’s first major movie of 2025 drops this week in the form of “Back in Action." This action-comedy from director Seth Gordon (the man behind “Horrible Bosses” and the awful “Baywatch” reboot) stars Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx as a couple of retired CIA agents who are drawn back into the world of espionage when their secret identities are exposed.

That was ultimately stuff that’s not in the movie,” Gordon told Decider, when asked about the reports of a double replacing Foxx.

Netflix has released a new original movie that has immediately rocketed to #1 on the service, but is Back in Action with Cameron Diaz worth watching?

Back in Action director Seth Gordon was a few beers deep at a Dodgers game in 2019, when he started joking about a fake movie he called Baby Bjorn Identity. “What happen if Jason Bourne had kids?

Back In Action marks Jamie Foxx’s second Netflix release since being hospitalized after falling ill in April 2023. In December 2024, the Texas native released the Netflix comedy special, What Had Happened Was, his first stand-up film in over two decades.

As “Back in Action” goes through its paces, you’ll find echoes of such films as the Bob Odenkirk-starring “Nobody” and the Mark Wahlberg vehicle “The Family Plan,” as well as “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” and even a little of “Knight and Day,” which starred Diaz and that Tom Cruise fella.

Andrew Scott, Kyle Chandler and Glenn Close also star in Seth Gordon’s caper about a pair of retired undercover agents dragged back into the spy game along with their unknowing children.

Director Seth Gordon—who launched his Hollywood career with the cult-hit arcade doc The King of Kong in 2007—is returning to documentary with a new film about the ruby slippers, tentatively titled Under the Rainbow.

A biographical sports drama and a dark comedy are also among the films trending across streaming services including Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, Max and AMC+.

Seth Gordon’s Back in Action set to premiere exclusively on Netflix on 17 January, 2025! Get ready for a dose of high-octane fun! Catch the trailer now as Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx are back, bringing the heat in Netflix’s Back in Action,