My Spy: The Eternal City‘s Rotten Tomatoes score breaks Dave Bautista’s incredible streak after 10 movies. A sequel to 2020’s My Spy, the new spy comedy continues following Bautista’s CIA operative, JJ, and his precocious 14-year-old stepdaughter, Sophie (Chloe Coleman), who head to Italy on a high school trip and become involved in a terrorist plot targeting the Vatican. Other than Bautista and Coleman, Kristen Schaal and Ken Jeong reprise their roles from the first film with Flula Borg, Craig Robinson, and Anna Faris joining My Spy: The Eternal City‘s cast.

Now, shortly after its release on Prime Video, My Spy: The Eternal City‘s Rotten Tomatoes score has solidified at 15%, breaking Bautista’s streak of Fresh ratings going back 10 movies to the original My Spy (48%) from 2020. The sequel has just under 30 reviews at the time of writing, so its score is expected to fluctuate slightly. For context, the original garnered almost 130 reviews from Rotten Tomatoes-approved critics. However, the sequel’s score should remain rotten and break Bautista’s streak.

How My Spy: The Eternal City’s Rotten Tomatoes Score Compares To Dave Bautista’s Last 10 Movies

The former WWE wrestler began his acting career with roles in films such as House of the Rising Sun, The Man with the Iron Firsts, and Riddick. However, Bautista’s breakthrough came when he was cast as Drax the Destroyer in Guardians of the Galaxy. He reprised the role for subsequent MCU movies while also securing significant roles in high-profile movies such as Spectre and Blade Runner 2049. He really hit his stride with his last 10 movies, collaborating with an array of acclaimed auteur directors.

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Bautista’s streak started with Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead (67%) and that same year, he starred in Denis Villeneuve’s Dune (83%), later reprising his role as Glossu Rabban for Dune: Part Two (92%) He also reprised his role as Drax for Taika Waititi’s Thor: Love and Thunder (63%), James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (82%), and the holiday special (94%). In between there, Bautista starred in Rian Johnson’s sequel Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (91%), M. Night Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin (67%), and lent his voice to Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron (97%).

Bautista’s last Rotten score before his 10-film Fresh streak was My Spy, and now that streak has ended with its sequel. Similar to the first film, My Spy: The Eternal City‘s reviews point out how the movies try to plug Bautista into the familiar formula of pairing a charismatic action star with a precocious child to mediocre results. As evident by his collaborations with auteur directors like Villeneuve and Gunn, Bautista’s talents are better utilized in other ways.

Source: Rotten Tomatoes

My Spy: The Eternal City (2024)

A sequel to the 2020 film, My Spy: The Eternal City is an action-comedy film starring Dave Bautista and Chloe Coleman. CIA operative J.J. is coerced into following Sophie on a school trip to Italy that goes south when terrorists attack.

Director

Peter Segal

Release Date

July 18, 2024

Studio(s)

Dogbone Entertainment , Good Fear Content , Madison Wells

Distributor(s)

Amazon Studios , STX Entertainment , Prime Video

Writers

Peter Segal , Jon Hoeber , Erich Hoeber

Runtime

111 Minutes

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