Back In Action Brilliantly Used Its Actors Against You

Netflix's action comedy Back in Action boasts a great cast, and the movie wisely plays with the audience's past experience of the actors involved.

January 19, 2025 · 1 min · 60 words · Tina Mayer

Of course, audiences will suspect Scott based on his past roles.

Still, he has no connection to the mercenaries seeking the ICS key.

He’s walking them through the opening mission before they decide to disappear and go lead normal lives.

Kyle Chandler and Jamie Foxx also co-starred in the 2007 action thrillerThe Kingdom.

Foxx and Diaz from Back in Action, alongside Andrew Scott as Baron

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Andrew Scott sitting in a chair with his legs crossed as Moriarty in Sherlock

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Coach Eric Taylor (Kyle Chandler) yelling for time out at a game on Friday Night Lights

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Headshot Of Jamie Foxx In The European premiere of ‘Creed III’

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