Cameron Diaz's new Netflix comeback movie finds its audience score on Rotten Tomatoes turning around and more than doubling its critic score.

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.

Director Seth Gordon recounts the first meeting he had with Jamie Foxx when he returned to set after collapsing while in production on "Back in Action."

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

Taylor Gates of Collider rates it a 4 out of 10, saying Back in Action is “too formulaic to be fun,” and it struggles in tone as too adult to engage a younger audience but too kid-friendly to be considered one of Netflix’s sexiest movies. Gates says:

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,

Netflix has debuted the full official trailer for the Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx-led ‘Back in Action.’ Years after giving up life as CIA spies to start a family, Emily and Matt find themselves dragged back into the world of espionage when their cover is blown.

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.

Back in Action, directed by Seth Gordon, was released to Netflix on 17 January and has received a very low Rotten Tomatoes score of 24 per cent. The action/drama revolves around former CIA spies Emily and Matt who get drawn back into espionage after their secret identities are exposed.

Back in Action' director Seth Gordon tells PEOPLE in an exclusive interview that Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx supported each other throughout filming — when the actress marked her return to acting with her first movie in over a decade and the actor had a medical emergency during production in April 2023.

Flash forward 15 years. and the couple, having gone underground, live in a comfy suburban house with two lovely (and barely annoying) teenagers. Matt coaches the soccer team. The teens, Alice and Leo (McKenna Roberts and Rylan Jackson, both appealing), are not aware of their parents’ high-flying past; Matt and Emily want their lives to be normal.