REASONS TO SEE: Some really terrific action sequences, and Winstead makes a solid action heroine. With a little more care and love, this could have been something truly special rather than the decent diversion that it is.
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Still, the movie is an entertaining if somewhat overly-familiar action movie that is executed reasonably well. Kate seems to be a modern samurai, or more accurately in this instance a ronin, but they don’t really explore that aspect at all, really. I do think though that the movie missed an opportunity by making Japanese culture somewhat stereotypical I would have preferred a deeper dive into the richness of it, a well waiting to be tapped, but alas, the filmmakers preferred to go the safer, easier route. The Japanese-setting is neon-drenched, stylistically reminding of films like John Wick and Black Rain. That’s true of all age groups, by the way. Not that teens can’t be heroic there are a whole lot of them out there who are, but there are plenty who are not. That kind of thing tends to make me want to gag. A lot of time the teen protégé role tends to be a means for a younger audience to relate to the film and often most writers portray them as quipping, arrogant jerks who end up knowing more than the lead and saving the day. Martineau makes Ani much less annoying than the character might have been in less capable hands.
Even as Kate’s body begins to betray her and the poison begins to reduce her reactions and bodily functionality into obstacles for her to overcome, Kate still carries herself with a lethal presence that is all Winstead. While the character of Kate doesn’t have a whole lot of emotional baggage – she’s been trained since childhood that way – Winstead still manages to imbue the character with humanity. Winstead has done some decent action heroine work in the past, but she’s never been better than she is here. One of the things that is positive here is that the badass super-competent assassin here is female and that she develops a protégé relationship with a young woman, which is a nice gender-switch for this type of movie. This Japan-set Netflix extravaganza benefits from having the good folks at 87North, the production team responsible for the John Wickseries, working with them and that particular franchise heavily influences the proceedings here.
The way in is through his teenage niece Ani (Martineau) who at first is a kidnap victim but eventually begins to realize that she and Kate have a lot in common, and begins to access her own inner badass super-competent assassin. Her investigation – which is done with guns and blades to cut down on time – leads her to a Yakuza clan chief named Kijima (Kunimura), but he is too well-guarded to go after directly. Instead, she intends to rage, rage against the dying of the light and, more specifically, against those who poisoned her. When her last assignment doesn’t work out as planned, she discovers that she’s been poisoned and has 24 agonizing hours to live.Īs you might imagine, Kate doesn’t intend to go gently into that good night. But she wants out and a chance to live a relatively normal life and maybe even start a family. Kate (Winstead) is a badass super-competent assassin, and has been raised to be such by her handler Varrick (Harrelson) since she was an orphaned child. Said badass super-competent assassin goes ballistic in an attempt to take revenge on those who have done them wrong.
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before a badass super-competent assassin yearns to leave the business of turning people into worm food behind them, only to find out that their employers are unwilling to let them retire. “That’s why I became an actress…for the glamour!” (2021) Action ( Netflix) Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Woody Harrelson, Miku Martineau, Tadanobu Asano, Jun Kunimura, Michel Huisman, Miyavi, Mari Yamamoto, Hirotaka Renge, Kazuya Tanabe, Cindy Sirinya Bishop, Amelia Crouch, Ava Caryofyllis, Gemma Brooke Allen, Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Koji Nishiyama, Kazuhiro Muroyama, Shinji Uchiyama, Miku Kobato.
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