A lot happened in 2014: there was an Ebola epidemic in West Africa; the Scottish people held a referendum to become independent – and didn’t; the video for Gangnam Style racked up over 2 billion views on YouTube; and Uruguayan footballer Luis Suarez took a chunk out of another player during the World Cup.

It also saw Cameron Diaz release three films - The Other Woman, Sex Tape and Annie - they were to be her last as she announced her retirement from acting.

Eleven years later and the 52 year old actress has decided to come out of retirement with a film with a title that says it all.

Living a rather perfect family life in the suburbs of Atlanta are Emily (Diaz) and Matt (Jamie Foxx), with their two children Alice (McKenna Roberts) and Leo (Rylan Jackson).

It didn’t always used to be this way, as the pair gave up careers as spies to concentrate on having a family fifteen years ago.

But their past lives are now catching up with them, when their identities leak online giving away their location, which is good news for some of their enemies who have a score to settle.

So the couple now find themselves in danger again, but this time, their family are too.

If you had been away from acting as long as Diaz had been, you would think that you would only be lured back by a role of real substance. Turns out Diaz wasn’t fussed by that, only to return for a feeble role in a generic family comedy flick.

She’s not the only one making a lengthy return; the last film Seth Gordon directed was 2017’s Baywatch, which we’re guessing he left it that long in the hope it was enough time for people to forget his last crime against cinema. He wrote and produced this too, and again, if you wanted to make a strong comeback, you would have thought a lot more effort was needed. And there really is very little effort on show here.

But despite its woeful lack of originality, the script is quite perky in places, and is certainly helped by the welcome appearance of Jamie Demetriou as spy-in-training Nigel. Also Glenn Close appears to be having a lot of fun playing Emily’s estranged English mother, and Andrew Scott less so, in a role that doesn’t do his talents any justice.

It was also the film that Foxx was making during his health scare, where he had a stroke from a brain bleed, but it’s unclear whether that was from reading the script.

The only logical reason for Diaz to return for this is either financial struggles, or Gordon has something big on her that he used to get her back; either way, it’s an undeniably underwhelming return, that’s more of an unassuming pop than a bang. Let’s just hope that the forthcoming Jonah Hill comedy Outcome, which she co-stars with Hill and Keanu Reeves, is a more fitting and deserved comeback.