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Prime Video’s new movie Playdate is a Kevin James action movie. That’s basically all you need to know. Kevin James was making terrible movies at the height of his fame, and that was 15 years ago. You can imagine how much worse even this is. I mean: It’s his follow-up to Guns Up , directed by Edward John Drake — the guy behind a lot of those very late-career Bruce Willis movies no one saw. Make of that what you will.

Playdate is bad. It’s borderline unwatchable, even by family action standards. Mark Wahlberg’s Family Plan was also a “family action movie,” and it was bad, but Playdate makes Family Plan look like the Die Hard of the genre.

Here’s the short and skinny: Kevin James plays Brian, an unemployed accountant marrie

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