My Spy (2020)

This falls under pandemic movie viewing, as well as nostalgia for movies that the kids watched together over and over again on the long car trips of their youth.  This is totally a spy plus kid movie that you could see Dwayne Johnson rocking.

Dave Bautista stars as JJ, a former Army Ranger/Special Ops bad ass who’s now having a hard time transferring his killing skills and sheer brute strength to the CIA, where his boss informs him that subtlety and finesse are more valuable. After botching a job in Ukraine involving a plutonium deal, JJ is sent undercover to Chicago to surveil the relatives of the bad guy who got away: recently widowed ER nurse Kate, and her lonely nine-year-old daughter, Sophie (Coleman).  They have just moved there from Paris for a fresh start after the murder of their husband/father.  JJ’s partner on the mission is the overeager tech wiz Bobbi (Kristen Shaal), who’s brilliant but has zero field experience, not to mention she does not round out JJ's rough edges. The two hole up in a ratty apartment across the way from Sophie and her mom, but Sophie soon finds their hidden cameras, hunts them down and insists that JJ teach her how to be a spy, or else she’ll blow their cover.  It is pretty low violence for an action movie (once you get past the very gory opening scene) and modestly amusing.  Light viewing.