Overview
- Deep Cover began streaming on Amazon Prime Video on June 12, 2025, introducing viewers to a novel action-comedy premise.
- The story centers on three improv performers recruited by London police for undercover work in a cocaine-smuggling ring.
- Tom Kingsley directs from a screenplay co-written by Derek Connolly, Colin Trevorrow, Ben Ashenden and Alexander Owen.
- The film draws on a real NYPD sting operation that used actors for low-level undercover tasks, reimagined in a British comedy setting.
- Reviewers praise the movie’s witty balance of action and humor and single out Orlando Bloom’s over-the-top method-actor role for its comedic impact.