A female assassin accepts a mission that turns her world upside down.
One of the most impressive and bloody opening action sequences you have ever seen! Nikita (1990) meets Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) meets Doom (2005). And then, they all meet a tad cliché and unnecessarily convoluted storyline.
A young girl who witnesses her father getting murdered (1) gets saved and recruited by some people (2), who help her avenge her father’s vicious murder (3), but then gets caught by a government organisation (4), which offers to train her (again?) (5), and ten years later, she starts a normal life (6), but goes back to doing missions (7). That’s the story’s development. Then, there is the character’s (un)development. Finishing the second training, she has fewer skills than the first.
The editing is somewhat confusing, too. Ten years fly by like months, and time flies by after that until the last mission when it decelerates to real-time. The rhythm and pace of this film are a case study. As for the directing… Honestly, it feels like the opening sequence’s director quit or got sacked during Act Two and returned just for the final confrontation.
Please watch it if you haven’t already done so, and feel free to share your opinion. Maybe it’s me.
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I will definitely give this a go and I will let you know. Enjoy your hols and big love to you and your family. X
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