That Film Stew | Episode 669 - Mayday (Review)

Written and directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, Mayday is the action comedy film starring Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh. When hotshot U.S. Navy pilot Lieutenant Troy "Assassin" Kelly (Ryan Reynolds) is sent on a top-secret mission into Russian territory at the height of the Cold War, the operation implodes, leaving him stranded behind enemy lines. Discovered by Nikolai Ustinov (Kenneth Branagh), a gruff ex-KGB agent with a penchant for American culture, Troy thinks he's toast - but could an unlikely alliance between the two lead to Troy's rescue and a bond neither saw coming? We break down all things from the Cold War aesthetics, to the Ryan Reynolds shtick, and Kenneth Branagh's Russian accent.