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Initially I was thrilled about getting to sit down to watch "The Protége" from writer Richard Wenk and director Martin Campbell, but someone had mentioned that the movie wasn't really all that great. So it was with a bit of doubt that I sat down to watch "The Protége". Regardless of how it was playing out, then I would watch it, as the movie had a rather nice cast ensemble.

And I must say that I am glad that I opted to watch the movie, because I happened to enjoy the movie. This was a good old fashioned action crime thriller, for better or worse. Sure, the storyline and plot may have been predictable and somewhat generic, but who cares? It made for good wholesome entertainment.

The storyline is easily followed and doesn't really require all that much in the intellectual department, so you just switch off the old gray and lean back and enjoy the movie. And yeah, that was actually a good thing about the movie, because it is a munch-on-the-popcorn-and-enjoy-the-action kind of movie.

"The Protége" has a good cast ensemble. And truth be told, of course I had to watch "The Protége" given the fact that Maggie Q was starring in it, as she tends to make some pretty decent action movies. And she was nicely cast for "The Protége", I will say that much. And it certainly was nice to have the likes of Michael Keaton and Samuel L. Jackson in a movie such as this as well.

There is a good amount of action and fight scenes throughout the course of "The Protége", which definitely help bring the movie up and into a good pacing.

I was adequately entertained by "The Protége", and it is a movie well-worth watching if you like action crime thrillers.

My rating of "The Protége" lands on a six out of ten stars.

Sure yeah the story isn't the most interesting or original, but the lead actors are great, it's paced very well and the action is good, sometimes illogical but good, far from fast and furious illogical. You won't go back to it but it's as entertaining as it is forgettable. I think it's made to entertain, not to picked apart by movie analysts, and in that regard it's a great movie. It's a John wick type of fun.

While the Protege is a somewhat forgettable, typical action thriller movie, it's two leads do a great job. Maggie and Michael are both very charismatic in the movie, and do not phone in their performances. Samuel L Jackson is also good, but his performance is a little more phoned in than our other leads. The action is very good, with realistic hand to hand combat and decent gun play. While it's not the best action in a movie, it's definitely choreographed well and shot competently. I would mainly recommend this movie for Maggie and Michaels performances alone, along with the action scenes. However, if you're not interested in that you can probably skip this movie and not miss anything.

It's a pretty decent assassin seeking revenge story, we all know the drill as we've all seen a million of them.

Maggie Q is who she is in everything, and is always good at it.

Michael Keaton was surprisingly good, but I'm always surprised he can act, despite his long and varied career.

The story was the weak point, but as it was a bog-standard revenge story with an extremely obvious twist at the end, that isn't surprising or even a particular detriment.

You've seen most of this before, brutality, revenge, rich people. I liked the cat and mouse chemistry between Keaton and Q despite the age difference. A good throwback feel.

There are some good action sequences in this Maggie Q vehicle that shows off her chops as a movie action star and her beauty. Unfortunately the story and script are rather generic, and the director hasn't made the best use of the exotic locations, with most of the film having a sound-stage feel. Michael Keaton is a great actor, but I found the casting of a 70-year-old white male actor as the love interest of a 40-year-old Asian woman very off. Hope Maggie Q gets the material she deserves one day.

'The Protégé' was a perfectly fine simple action film up to an hour into it.

After that, the characters were just set loose. I was unable to understand why was anyone doing what they were doing. Every character's motivation was beyond me. What was the point of Jackson's fakeout? Why did Maggie Q and Keaton have a Mr. & Mrs. Smith dynamic but not really? Why does Jackson give moral speeches to people before the assassinations, this seems just a little hypocritical? Why did Maggie Q want a normal life in peace when she clearly had one and she never showed any signs of discontent with her murdering lots of people for money (it was more like she enjoyed it)? Barely anything makes sense in this film.

In the end, it seemed like Moody was the main villain and not some generic corrupt businessman. I mean, he never cared for the hacker kid who got steamed because of him, or his maid, he was perfectly fine with dead bodies piling up.

The thing is if you want to write in a twist - do so. Something stupid happening can't be a twist by itself. You can trick a viewer by showing him/her what you want, but not the characters of your film, it just doesn't work like that. The viewer assumes that if something affected a character's motivation - this actually happened.

Overall, 'The Protégé' feels like a moderately budgeted action film with a couple of big names filmed in cheaper and convenient countries with no-name extras. And this works alright until the characters become sentient and just do whatever they want at the moment.

An enjoyable, undemanding action thriller. Well-paced, with some lovely scenery and some good action scenes. Some of the violence was unnecessarily gruesome. Maggie Q was good and is easy on the eyes, and Michael Keaton stole every scene he was in.

Fun enough for a John Wick style movie, with some really good acting by the main characters. Sadly it couldn't make up for a nonsensical plot that forces the characters into illogical decisions. It also relied heavily on Hollywood's inability to figure out how many bullets a weapon can hold (in one scene a guy literally fires at least 50 rounds from a handgun with no reload.) Bottom line watch it when it streams for free.

When you sometimes read famous actors appear in a movie you may not have heard anything about, mostly the actors are in the movie for a couple of seconds. In this case, especially Michael Keaton really is in this a lot more than I expected. And he is sooooo good in it. It's the Keaton charme you may say - and you would not be wrong.

The movie concentrates on Maggie Q and her mission(s). You may already know what she is after if you watched the trailer, but there are still a few surprises along the way. Also the action is quite well choreographed. Yes Maggie Q, Michael Keaton and others probably only did a small percentage of their stunts - but that is what the stunt people are there for.

And let's not forget: the movie was made by Martin Campbell. Which is the reason this was shown in theatres in America - unfortunately not in Germany though. I can imagine the impact this has on a bigger screen too, but it is not the same. Well made, even if it has the odd cliche once in a while. The actors and the action make up for that ... also the story does take you to wild places ... for better or worse of course, but I'd argue mostly for better.

We've seen it all before but it's well made, the female killing action is fairly believable, Maggie is smoking, Keaton plays it just right. Think Mr. And Mrs. Smith between them. I'd watch a part 2.

The Protégé attempts to make a played out genre its own by adding awkward banter and misfired quips. The action, while fair, is the clear focus of this production because the plot is clunky and uninteresting. This is exacerbated by Maggie Q's bland acting. She tries to achieve the assured demeanor that the script is hoping for but she comes across wooden and forced. This isn't solely her fault since the dialogue wishes it was much cooler than it actually is. But Maggie does not elevate the role in any meaningful way.

From a technical perspective, The Protégé is decent enough. The action is the film's redeeming quality because the shot choices, choreography, and special effects are all adequate. Once, the music even enhances a fight scene to highlight juxtaposing emotions at hand. Yet, this is outweighed by the contrived and cringe writing. In almost every way, the script fails the audience because the story is unoriginal, the conversations lack wit, and the characters are flat. Often, The Protégé outright tells us how to feel instead of giving us real reasons to care, leaving viewers to groan at a marginally subpar piece of work.

Writing: 2/10 Direction: 4/10 Cinematography: 5/10 Acting: 4/10 Editing: 5/10 Sound: 6/10 Score/Soundtrack: 6/10 Production Design: 4/10 Casting: 5/10 Effects: 6/10

Overall Score: 4.7/10.

If your looking for a entertaining assassin movie. This is worth your time. Even had a couple fun twists.

The Protégé packs nonstop action and is extremely entertaining and really thrilling . A violent and frenetic movie about a child rescued as a by the legendary assassin Moody (Samuel L Jackson). Then, Anna (Maggie Q) becomes the world's most skilled contract killer. However, when Moody is brutally killed, Anna decides to seek vengeance. She believes that their last assassination target, Edward Hayes (David Rintoul) is involved, but she is besieged by a criminal gang. Eventually, Anna undertakes a courageous last stand determined to safeguard her life and exact a vendetta. Made for vengeance !

A run-of-the-mill action movie that's nothing special. The film contains noisy action, thrills, violence, lots of shootings, and cold-blooded deaths. However, the film drags at times and becomes tiresome until the story finally gets into the explosive action. Displaying a simple and plain story, being essentially about a girl who vows revenge for the man who taught her everything she knows.

The film packs a luxurious atmosphere, suspense, hair-raising frames and loads of action and blood. While the look is suitable intriguing and frightening, the plot spreads to the breaking point and the ending turns out to be a little frustrating. Stars Maggie Q, who provides the usual action heroine character, has recently been starring in various films as a tough female facing all kinds of bad guys , such as: Fear the nights, The king of fighters, Rogues Gallery, The crash, balls of fury and Nikita series. Assisted by a well-known cast, such as Samuel L Jackson, Micahel Keaton, Robert Patrick, along with the villain on duty played by Patrick Malahide.

From the start to the ending the action pace and intrigue are fast moving, providing fast and furious entertainment with overwhelming scenes. It's the typical film about the relationship between a guardian: Samuel L Jackson and a pupil: Maggie Q, in which the former teaches the latter his criminal practices, acting as a kind of adoptive father; with the same story we've seen many times before, and even better filmed, that follows relentless revenge when the former is murdered. Therefore, the plot is both over-familiar and trivial. Some scenes are brutal and with a load of violence . Still it's a decent movie, I think furthermore the incredible chemistry between Maggie Q and samuel L. Jackson.

Maggie Q gives a fine acting as Anna whose striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins. She is attractive as the heroine who turns in violent tendencies to revengeful use. In addition, It benefits enormously from a memorably assured performances from Samuel L. Jackson and Michael Keaton

There's acolorful cinematogaraphy from cameraman David Tattersall that was shot in Bulgaria, Vietnam and Romania. This motion picture titled ¨The Protégé¨ was professionally made by Martin Campbell. Campbell's first Hollywood movie was Criminal Law (1998) and he went on to direct Defenseless (1991) and No Escape (1994). Martin is a good craftsman and expert on thrillers and action movies , such as : ¨No escape¨, ¨Criminal law¨, ¨The mask of Zorro¨, ¨The legend of Zorro¨, ¨Three for all¨, ¨GoldenEye¨, ¨Casino Royale¨, ¨Vertical limit¨, ¨Reckless¨, ¨Last resort¨, ¨Edge of darkness¨, ¨Green Lantern¨, among others. Some of his American credits include directing a TV film: HBO's Cast a Deadly Spell (1991) and two episodes of NBC's Homicide: Life on the Street (1993), among others. He also directed the epic romance Beyond Borders (2003) starring Angelina Jolie and Clive Owen. And directed two James Bond actors in their respective debuts: Pierce Brosnan in GoldenEye (1995) and Daniel Craig in Casino Royale (2006). "The Protégé¨ rating: 5.5/10. An acceptable thriller with suspense, shootouts, nice special effects, attractive music, all of them genre determinants making a passable pastime for one fine viewing.

Greetings from Lithuania.

The first (and only) reason i watched "The Protégé" (2021) was due to director Martin Campbell. Being a fan of his work, i knew this movie will be at least mildly entertaining and skilfully made if nothing else. And that is excactly what i got from "The Protégé".

While not the best thriller around (far from it), it was well directed and with three starts in a lead movie that kept me entertained. I wish they had better sript, because while story was OK, it needed a better script. Action scenes were good and there are some stylish action as well.

Overall, "The Protégé" is a passable thriller but definitely not a bad one to see it once. If nothing else, this kept me entertained for its pretty short run time.

The good: Lots of cool action and Maggie Q's acting is solid with a side dish that includes eye candy for days. The bad: The story gets confusing towards the second act. At least 3-4 plots including sub plots. Should have kept it simple. Good looking film though.

The Protégé is extremely weak in the writing department that it has to make do with its three charismatic lead performers and a few not-bad set pieces. Director Martin Campbell's films have always been a mixed bag - he made Casino Royale (which in my books, is one of the best Bond flicks, period!), the thrill-by-the-minute Vertical Limit (which was a neat throwaway action flick), and also stinkers such as Green Lantern and Beyond Borders. I'd position The Protégé among his weaker films though not an absolute write-off. It even starts off well before diving into the familiar action territories of Lyon: The Professional and John Wick.

Michael Keaton's character is supposed to be the film's trump card. However, the writing (by Richard Wenk) is so drab that it only adds to the overall tedium of the screenplay. Samuel L Jackson's script choices have lately not been the greatest (Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard, Spiral, and now this) and it looks like he's in it to have guns blazing fun at 72. While I was excited to see Maggie Q finally get her due in Hollywood playing the lead in a studio-backed actioner, I realized later it should have been in a better film altogether. She's convincing as an arse-kicker and also looks insanely hot while at it - David Leitch, Chad Stahelski, and others - take note.

I found the pairing of Michael Keaton and Maggie Q to be rather odd. This isn't the '80s or '90s. We don't need to witness weird sexual chemistry between a 69-year-old and a 42-year-old during an indoor set piece. The transition of tone is also very abrupt. One moment, a side character is cracking a joke and the next minute, he's murdered in the most gruesome way. And this doesn't happen just once. It's the way the film is structured as a whole - just throwing a whole bunch of moments at you. As scenes, they just don't mesh well. Even 77-year-old Campbell can do better - he already has proven himself. Let's give Maggie the action movie she deserves before it's too late!

A little surprised at some of the low ratings. There are plenty of films in this genre, but this is one of the better ones. I'm a Michael Keaton fan (I always thought he was the best Batman!) and he doesn't disappoint in this. Neither do Maggie Q or SLJ. Some of the plot twists stretch reality a bit, but hey, guess what, it's a movie!

Hopefully there'll be a sequel if it makes enough at the box office.....

Yet Another Female Assassin Headliner. The Roots Date Back to Luc Besson's "Nikita" (1990.

Besson Unleashed a "Girls With Guns" Post-Modern Juggernaut.

A Revival of the Low-Budget Exploitation of the Drive-In-Grind-House Genre of the 70's.

This One has a Hard-Bodied, Straight Up and Down Maggie Q, who at 40 Something is a Sight to Behold.

Michael Keaton Plays a Surprisingly Effective, Against-Type "Action" Slick in a Suit.

His Banter with Q is a Highlight Amongst the Hard-Nosed Hit and Kick Thrills, with a Copious Amount of Explosions and Bad-Guys.

Not Much New Here, Except for the Unexpected Keaton & Q Confrontations.

The Meilu is Dreary, Third-World Dread and the Tone only Occasionally Deviates from the Dire.

Overall it's Mostly a Dark Landscape.

It's Despicable Evil Killers with the Purely Innocent in Short Supply.

This Makes for a Slightly Different Affair from the Usual Affair of High-Gloss, Big-Budget, Female-Force that has been so Trendy in Recent Years.

Underrated and Action Fans Should Certainly Give it a Go.

If you're just looking for an easy to watch popcorn action movie then The Protégé might be a movie for you. But you can't be too picky, you have to be able to accept that old geezers still fight like if they we're in the early primes, not only fighting but also winning. You have to be able to accept that a tiny women of 42 like Maggie Q still can take out an army of bodybuilders and martial arts experts. If you're fine with all that then it's an enjoyable movie to watch. But if you find that all too ridiculous then you won't be able to fully enjoy the story. I thought the plot was okay. The acting is good but then again you can't expect anything less from that cast. Good quality cinematography as well so all in all it's a good action movie if you don't have too high standards.

Not being a fan of John Wick films, this one ranked up there with just another poor writing, poorly executed film. The action scenes are good, but there it lies the problem, they were far way too few. Most of the movie is just talking talking about a very convoluted plot that was hard to follow and made even less sense. Overall, I was bored out of my mind and the movie barely served as a noise maker in the background while I did my work on the computer.

If these are the same creators that made Nobody, they really need to study their work and find out what made that one work.

3 out of 5 stars.

The Protege is a fair action thriller film that has some entertaining action. Boring plot. And decent cast performances. Its one of those assassin like films where the story is about an assassin going after a group of bad guys. Who killed one of her own friends for tying up loose ends. Sure there is a little more to the story.

The plot is about Anna (Maggie Q) an assassin who works for Moody (Samuel L. Jackson). Who is like a farher figure to her when he took her in when her family was killed and she went on a vengeance spree as a child. When Rembrandt (Michael Keaton) and his man go after a person she is friends with. She decides to go after them all.

The plot is like any other assassin flick. Sets up the action and for the character to go beat down through so many guys and crazy shoot outs. Once credits start rolling. The film is forgettable.

It does have a lot of entertaining action sequences and shoot outs. Maggie Q stealing the show. She is great in Nikita series. And the film is kind of like a movie version of it. Michael Keaton was decent as the character. Along with Samuel L. Jackson.

Sadly, Martin Campbells direction has been a slight disappointment. His early films like Legend or Mask of Zorro. Vertical Limit. Goldeneye and Casino Royale were his better films. And his recent work has been a slight let down.