MacGruber (2010)

Release date: 2010-05-21
Country: USA
Language: English|Russian
Director: Jorma Taccone
Production Co: Broadway Video, Michaels Goldwyn, Relativity Media
Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance
Rating: 5.5/10
Length: 1h 30min

Storyline

In the Dzhugdzhur Mountains, Eastern Siberia, the criminal Dieter Von Cunth steals a Russian X5 nuclear warhead. Colonel James Faith travels to Rio Bamba, Ecuador, with the efficient Lieutenant Dixon Piper to summon the retired special operative MacGruber to retrieve the X5. MacGruber is considered deceased after the death of his beloved wife Casey by his archenemy Cunth in their wedding. MacGruber teams up with Piper and Vicki St. Elmo and they learn that the evil Cunth intends to use the warhead to destroy Washington D.C.

Plot Keywords

kiss, machine gun, grenade launcher, pistol, uzi, silencer, sunglasses, cigarette smoking, limousine, henchman, soldier, subtitled scene, arms dealer, nuclear missile, hijacking, prologue, loss of virginity, abortion, erection, undressing

Short Review

Kristen Wiig lends it a bit of class as the hero's moll, Vicki St Elmo, but Forte is a pain, the scatological crudity unrelenting, and the air of pointlessness unignorable.