AVClub: In Ricky Gervais’ Netflix-only Special Correspondents, a reporter and a sound engineer lose their passports and tickets on the way to an assignment in Ecuador, and resort to faking coverage—as well as an eventual abduction by a made-up guerilla group—from an attic across the street from their New York radio station. The joke is supposed to be on the 24-hour media and foreign policy cycle, which corroborates every one of the pair’s “exclusives” in fear of being scooped. But as in The Invention Of Lying, the anti-religious satire he co-directed with Matthew Robinson, Gervais wusses out on a potentially scathing premise. By the time the hoaxster duo find themselves in the actual Ecuador, taken hostage for real while trying to fake a rescue, Special Correspondents has devolved into the indifferently made Reagan-era action-comedy it was probably always destined to be. (Picture the VHS box: “Steve Guttenberg in… Special Correspondents.”)
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