And in a cruel twist, Winstead has to use the girl audiences will come to know as Ani (Miku Martineau) to draw her uncle out of hiding so the dying assassin can kill her final target. Winstead does a fantastic job playing a killer with a conscience as she struggles with the image of a girl crying over her father's bleeding corpse burned into her head. "Kate" institutes an ultra-violent neon theme with guaranteed death on the line and manages to stick the landing. But Winstead? She has done the killer role before, and audiences know her action swagger is legitimate.Īnd while "Gunpowder Milkshake" tried to establish a cute yet deadly aesthetic in the first five to 10 minutes, it ultimately failed to commit. Karen Gillan tried way too hard to come across as a convincing killer in her Netflix action movie, and it resulted in a bland lead that killed her movie. Winstead doesn't have to try hard to be a formidable action hero.
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This movie succeeds in every area where "Gunpowder Milkshake" failed. Hell, at one point it looks like the anime "Tokyo Ghoul" is playing on the side of a skyscraper while Kate waits for a target with her rifle. Anime fans should love "Kate" because it really does embrace those high energy vibes with wacky and ultra violent action often found in Japanese animation. "Kate" is set in Japan, and it leans really hard into that environment with bright neon colors, a fight scene at a club that appears to be a kabuki performance, an underground punk rock show with cosplay and more. The rest of the movie is about Kate trying to kill her last target as revenge for poisoning her, even though she was poisoned seemingly in revenge for killing the target at the beginning of the film. It's a slightly worse prognosis than Jason Statham got in "Crank." Winstead plays an assassin named Kate who kills a target in front of his daughter and considers retiring because she can't shake the guilt.Īs with most action movies, Kate has "one last job" to finish, and she ends up hospitalized with a deadly radiation poisoning and given 24 hours to live. The movie stars Woody Harrelson and Mary Elizabeth Winstead, the latter of whom showed everyone in "Birds of Prey" that she was ready to carry her own action film.
Over the last few months, Netflix has dropped some "run and gun" action movies, like "Gunpowder Milkshake" and "Sweet Girl." Neither was great, but the streaming giant seems to have found success in its latest flick, "Kate." Others, like "Edge of Darkness," fade into obscurity because they're bland and terrible. Some, like "Lethal Weapon," stand the test of time and remain favorites to this day.
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