Back In Action marks Jamie Foxx’s second Netflix release since being hospitalized after falling ill in April 2023. In December 2024, the Texas native released the Netflix comedy special, What Had Happened Was, his first stand-up film in over two decades.

J anuary hasn’t been a huge month for 2025 movie releases, but one exception has been Netflix, where the long awaited Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx vehicle Back in Action finally

From season two of "Severance" to "Back in Action," here's what to watch this weekend on Netflix, Peacock, Max, and more streamers.

Netflix’s first major movie of 2025 drops this week in the form of “Back in Action." This action-comedy from director Seth Gordon (the man behind “Horrible Bosses” and the awful “Baywatch” reboot) stars Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx as a couple of retired CIA agents who are drawn back into the world of espionage when their secret identities are exposed.

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Director Seth Gordon recounts the first meeting he had with Jamie Foxx when he returned to set after collapsing while in production on "Back in Action."

Andrew Scott, Kyle Chandler and Glenn Close also star in Seth Gordon’s caper about a pair of retired undercover agents dragged back into the spy game along with their unknowing children.

Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx save a slow week for new Netflix releases with their new high-energy spy comedy Back in Action.

As “Back in Action” goes through its paces, you’ll find echoes of such films as the Bob Odenkirk-starring “Nobody” and the Mark Wahlberg vehicle “The Family Plan,” as well as “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” and even a little of “Knight and Day,” which starred Diaz and that Tom Cruise fella.