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Back in Action (2025)

★ 6.4 · 1,486 ratings on TMDB

They're living their best lies.

Back in Action poster★ 6.4

Fifteen years after vanishing from the CIA to start a family, elite spies Matt and Emily jump back into the world of espionage when their cover is blown.

DirectorSeth Gordon
CastAndrew Scott, Cameron Diaz, Fola Evans-Akingbola, Glenn Close, Jamie Demetriou, Jamie Foxx
GenresAction, Comedy
The emergence reading

Back in Action keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

The Avengers (2012)E8/E11Ant-Man (2015)E8/E11Batman Begins (2005)E8/E11Inception (2010)E8/E11Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)E8/E11The Truman Show (1998)E8/E11

Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

The Interview (2014)E9/E12 · Action, ComedySahara (2005)E14 · Action, ComedyIron Sky (2012)E12/E14 · Action, ComedyDragnet (1987)E9/E10 · Action, ComedyLet the Bullets Fly (2010)E9/E10 · Action, ComedyDeath Race 2000 (1975)E12 · Action, Comedy

Same people

Shared director or cast.

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