Kate

When 'Kate' (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), an expert sniper and lethal assassin, botches a job, she learns she has been poisoned and only has about 24hours to live. With her handler, Varrick (Woody Harrelson), she tries to finish her contract before she dies.

This film plays out much like 'Crank' (2006), in that Kate is on the verge of death and has to rely on using stimulants to keep moving. The cinematography is great and the casting is solid, especially with the snarky antics of Ani (Miku Patricia Martineau), but falls a little short in terms of believability. The twist at the end is predictable, but satisfying.

Worth a watch!

Good looking, fast paced movie with good fight choreography and a simple story. Basically, a female John wick. If not for a little too much sentimentality and a plot twist you can see coming from the start I would have given it an even higher score. Keep your expectations low and your gratitude high and you'll enjoy this one.

This was a La Femme Nikita/DOA situation filtered though live action anime with touches of the current slate of action movies like Atomic Blonde, Hardcore Henry, The Raid, and John Wick.

I guess I don't get the critics being harsher on this than any other action movie of late. Stuff happens. Action happens. Some more stuff happens. Some more action happens. It's a fun romp that dosnt outstay it's welcome. And you get to see a unique fight haircut.

There's actually a lot more to like in this new Netflix offering than one would expect: Mary Elizabeth Winstead makes a surprisingly capable action heroine, and the fight scenes are very well-staged and exciting. She goofs enough times, and faces enough adversity, to protect her from any accusations of being a Mary-Sue, and as a result we buy into her journey an awful lot more than we would a Rey, a Captain Marvel or Black Widow.

The dialogue is all filler, and the plot almost a carbon copy of better action films like John Wick, Lucy, Kill Bill, Hanna, Nikita and The Long Kiss Goodnight, but the Tokyo setting and nighttime cinematography look great, and all the actors pull off their roles pretty much faultlessly.

All in all, very predictable and containing nothing original of any kind, but a well-made and decent-enough popcorn-muncher if you're in the mood.

I have a major crush on Winsted. Having said that, good fights, bad cgi car chase. Watchable.