More recently, studios have sought to create a female take on John Wick with forgettable dreck like Gunpowder Milkshake, The Protégé, Jolt, and a whole host of Ruby Rose-led vehicles that don’t bear mentioning. Kate is one of many “elite assassin goes on a rampage” films that have sprouted up since John Wick hit theaters in 2014. up to the Jason Statham fever dream Crank. Versions of this story have been told for decades, dating back to the 1950 film noir D.O.A. If the premise sounds familiar, that’s because it is. With only 24 hours left to live, Kate goes on a rampage to murder Kijima (Jun Kunimura) the Yakuza big boss, and kidnaps his niece Ani in an attempt to find him. But after a one night stand with a handsome stranger (Michiel Huisman, who played another disastrous one night stand in The Flight Attendant), Kate is fatally poisoned. The act so shakes Kate that she considers quitting the game and starting fresh. Living in Tokyo, Kate is content to take orders from her handler and father figure Varrick (Woody Harrelson) until a hit goes wrong and Kate ends up shooting a member of the Yakuza in front of his own daughter, Ani (Miku Martineau). the World, Birds of Prey) plays the titular unstoppable assassin. Mary Elizabeth Winstead ( Scott Pilgrim vs. Which brings us to Kate, Netflix’s latest entry into the elite assassin genre. Films like Die Hard, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, The Matrix, and John Wick have inspired a host of pretenders to the throne that, while they share DNA with their predecessors, fail to capture the magic that made those movies iconic. These movies quickly become favorites, and studios scramble to recapture that same magic in derivative efforts. Once every decade or so, an action movie comes out that resets the bar for kinetic, thrilling action sequences.
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