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‘Jackpot!’ Review: The Lottery Plot’s Preposterous, but Awkwafina and John Cena Are a Winning Combo
'Bridesmaids' director Paul Feig directs the rare action comedy where the action is actually comedic, but can't fix the film's bigger script problems.
“Jackpot!” demands a trickier kind of physical comedy than Awkwafina’s been asked to deliver before, and even though her character is supposed to read as clumsy and incompetent, it takes considerable skill to pull off the routines that action choreographer James Young has in store for her. Fitting neatly between “The Heat” and 2016’s “Ghostbusters” reboot, “Jackpot!” finds the dapper director squarely in his comfort zone, falling back on some of the tricks that worked so well in “Bridesmaids,” minus the underlying relatability of that film’s brilliant screenplay. Here she delivers half a dozen diverse, laugh-out-loud supporting comics to the ensemble, from Katie’s insensitive/homicidal Airbnb host (Ayden Mayeri) to the shady leader of the Lottery Protection Agency (Simu Liu), who’s looking to steal Noel’s fee for himself.
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