Indeed from 2011’s The Thing prequel, 2016’s riveting and taut 10 Cloverfield Lane, 2020’s Harley Quinn/ Birds of Prey movie, and even 2010’s cult favorite Scott Pilgrim vs.
#Kate netflix amelia crouch movie
Now right off the bat I am just going to say that if you have seen the trailer for this particular slice of cinematic pie and you are still having reservations in regards to seeing this movie or not, then I feel that the deciding factor that should lean you to being on board with giving this slice of cinematic pie a watch is the work done in the lead role by Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Thus with only a day to live we soon witness as our titular heroine embarks on a campaign of vengeance consisting of finding those who placed her in this predicament and making sure that if she’s going down then they’re at least coming with her. Worst of all is the fact that she will be dead within 24 hours since there is no way to cure it. Yet things quickly go from bad to worse when Kate discovers that the reason she missed is because she has been slipped a fatal amount of poison which has left her with severe radiation sickness.
Of course this is where things finally go bad since the target gets away. Ten months later and our heroine has decided to walk off into the sunset….only for her handler to persuade her to do one final hit. For our titular heroine, this path is one which is started when she is tasked with eliminating a key member of the infamous criminal organization known as the Yakuza and, despite being successful, is wracked with trauma and guilt for having to kill him in front of his little girl. Of course, as is typical with this type of film, things start to go awry when a job goes south in some way. The plot is as follows: Taking the viewer to Osaka, Japan the movie Kate deals with a woman who has for virtually her whole life either been training to become or working as a gun for hire with her surrogate dad/handler Varrick finding her targets to eliminate and then she utilizing immense physical and firearm skills to finish the job.
If none of the above descriptors apply to you however….well I’m sure you can find something else to occupy your time with. Thus if you liked Gunpowder Milkshake, are looking for something to watch on a lazy day, looking to kill a couple of hours, love good but not great action flicks, or all of the above then this isn’t too bad. Namely that although the lead actress and the cast backing her up do fairly solid work and the action beats are quite engaging, this is also a movie which is severely crippled with a narrative that is tragically fairly predictable and cliché in just where it plans to go over the course of the film. Yet although the plot, setting, and a few other ingredients have been switched up, we also see that some things are also fairly similar. Yet although streaming titan Netflix already gave us a slice of cinematic pie in this arena in the form of the Karen Gillan-starrer Gunpowder Milkshake apparently they thought we needed another round of this distinct brand of cinematic mayhem which we are now getting in the form of the Mary Elizabeth Winstead-starrer Kate. At the same time though, this is also narrative material that, with few exceptions, has consistently given us work that is both entertaining yet also very much run of the mill. This is because “gun for hire” is a distinct career path that, although something that feels like it only could happen in the realm of fiction, is a career path that is very real and also comes equipped with prepackaged internal and external conflicts, exotic locales, and stakes that always borderline on the most extreme path possible. I think it is safe to say that why exactly people like movies that feature a hitman as the protagonist isn’t exactly something that requires a whole lot of thought process behind it. MPAA Rating: R/Genre: Action Thriller/Stars: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Miku Martineau, Woody Harrelson, Michiel Huisman, Tadanobu Asano, Jun Kunimura, Miyavi, Kazuya Tanabe, Ava Caryofyllis, Amelia Crouch, Gemma Brooke Allen/ Runtime: 106 minutes
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