REVIEW: Hannah Waddingham and Octavia Spencer make brilliant besties in ‘Ride or Die’

DUBAI: Despite incorporating nearly every cliché in the spy-comedy playbook, “Ride or Die” succeeds thanks to one important ingredient: The irresistible chemistry between Hannah Waddingham and Octavia Spencer. Their easy rapport transforms what could have been another formulaic action caper into a genuinely entertaining, if predictable, binge. Spencer plays Debbie Claybourne, the brilliant but overlooked wife of an ambitious British politician, who believes her lifelong best friend Judith Burton (Waddingham) is a mild-mannered forensic accountant.

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