LONDON: There is a healthy sense of deja vu during much of Apple TV’s new action comedy “The Family Plan.” Used car salesman Dan (Mark Wahlberg) is living his best suburban life — with an adoring wife and three photogenic kids, packed full of after-school clubs, date nights and diaper changing. For the latest updates, follow us on Instagram @arabnews.lifestyle Wife Jessica (Michelle Monaghan) is equally smitten but, she confesses to a girlfriend during a kickboxing class, sometimes she wishes their life was a little more exciting. If ever there was a case of being careful what you wish for, “The Family Plan” is it. Turns out, Dan is a former special forces assassin, and various shady characters from his past have tracked him down, eager to take revenge on their former colleague for leaving the life behind. Keen for this family to remain in the dark, Dan whisks them away, unpacking his secret spy stash beneath the floor of their house and passing off their escape as an impromptu road trip to Las Vegas. As a concept, it is pretty tried-and-tested. The chiseled action star hiding out in suburbia has been done by every movie from “True Lies” to “Keeping Up with the Joneses.” So, “The Family Plan” is unlikely to whisk audiences into new, uncharted cinematic directions. And to be fair to the cast, the movie is tightly shot and efficiently paced, and the set pieces are suitably bombastic. Wahlberg makes for an affable enough hero — his now-familiar nondescript acting style is actually a decent fit for a mercenary in a minivan — and British director Simon Cellan Jones wastes no time in pointing him at a series of slightly ridiculous scenarios which require him to take out assassins without his unsuspecting family realizing what is going on. That plot point gets stretched to breaking point at times, but if you are willing to stick with it, you are in for a moderately entertaining ride. Much like its lead, in fact, “The Family Plan” is safe, silly and likeable enough.