receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Hoboken International Film Festival (held in Greenwood Lake, New York!) two years ago, and he didn't receive it for stuff like this. The teenage actors in the film were at best adequate, while the older, former headliners deserved a better script. Guess you can't blame them, but the story could have used a different premise. As for the story, it gets a little over the top with the fictional Krakhovians kidnapping a teenage girl because she saw them kill somebody. And lest one think I'm making fun, I'll be hitting seventy myself in a couple months, so more power to these guys. has him by four years, so this was a real Old Timers reunion. Even so, Paul Sorvino is a tad older and Louis Gossett Jr. It's what happens when you turn eighty and still making movies, but still. I kept mentally comparing the Sonny Corleone James Cann with the Undercover Grandpa James Caan and it just didn't compute. But boy oh boy, this was a bit of a chore to sit through. Well, I don't want to be too harsh because my granddaughter picks out these flicks for some family viewing and I can't be critical to the point of alienating. The kids are fine if somewhat uninspired. The jokes aren't funny and all we're left with is a bunch of doddering old men.

This great cast should have better material. This needs to be fun and that's sorely missing. That would give them more time to build chemistry.

The entire crew could be living in a secret agent old age home and they can be introduced early on when the family visits. It takes a little too long to get to the old geezers. The premise could be fun and there are certainly great old timers in the cast. After escaping, they recruit grandpa's old crew. Secret agent Maddie Harcourt (Jessica Walter) claims that grandpa is actually delusional and his stories are fantasies. Using his military intelligence skills, he and the kid search for the missing girl. Angie goes missing and grandpa thinks it's a kidnapping. He has to cancel it for his visiting grandpa (James Caan) and his annoying outlandish war stories. Jake Bouchard gets a date with his crush Angie Wagner. That being said, while this film wasn't necessarily bad, it's not something that I would highly recommend and for that reason I have rated it accordingly. (as 'Mother'), Jessica Walter ('Maddie Harcourt'), Kenneth Welsh ('Harry') and Paul Sorvino ('Giovanni') could save it.

Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this film started out well enough but the plot soon became a bit too tired and clichéd to the point that not even a veteran cast which included Louis Gossett Jr. From that point on Lou takes charge and the first thing he does is to round up some of his old friends who worked with him in many of his clandestine missions. Naturally, Jake thinks his grandfather is going crazy again but changes his mind when Lou uncovers certain clues to support his theory. But when they finally arrive Angie is nowhere to be seen and it's then that Lou immediately suspects that she has been kidnapped. However, as he is driving his grandfather back to the nursing home, Jake gets a call from Angie telling him that her car broke down in a bad part of town and asks him if he can swing by and pick her up. Be that as it may, left with few options he tells Angie that he will meet her at the party. To make matters even more exasperating, Lou also has a history of telling outlandish stories about working as a secret agent which cause everybody to think he has gone senile. Not long afterward, however, he is told by his mother that his presence is required at home for the bi-weekly family dinner with his grandfather 'Lou' (James Caan) who resides at the local nursing home. Needless to say, he is delighted when she agrees. 'Jake Bouchard' (Dylan Everett) is a typical 17-year old high school student who finally gathers enough courage to ask a girl named 'Angie' (Greta Onieogou) out on a date.

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