Kate

For those just looking for bones breaking, faces getting stabbed, assassins delivering perfect headshots, Kate more than delivers. This film is a solid, fun action-thriller in a world filled with subpar ‘Wick’-ian clones.

It would be a stretch to call Kate a modern Western, but it has a certain gunslinger sensibility that mitigates any self-conscious edginess. There’s even a modicum of poignancy as Winstead fights her personal battle through increasing bodily disrepair. Despite the existence of so many movies like it, Kate tires you out on its own terms.

Kate has its charms.

Kate looks like most other productions from 87North, the company behind such cinematic cage fights as Atomic Blonde and the John Wick films. Honestly, this could have been called “Nuclear Brunette.” But with heart.

The film’s mimicry might be deft enough to pass muster here and there. But it doesn’t take an eagle eye to notice that Kate‘s got few ideas of its own.

Even if the combat choreography that made this vein of cinema so popular is up to snuff, and Winstead does handle her steps ably even as her character breaks down, this film should aspire to be more than a delivery system for a few solid shootouts.

Kate is a bland and unoriginal action movie that fails to make us care about its title character.

Considering the amount of junk on Netflix, this is a 5* film, so to balance the scoring I gave it a 10. I'd say 8 is a fair score. It's a really enjoyable popcorn movie that is done really well. The girl is a really natural and good actor, would be interested to see what else she can do if given a meatier role. Very entertaining.

In such an over saturated genre there are few suprises here. The production quality is superb though and the fight choreography is very good. Ultimately the near comic book style failed to build up any real tension when the stakes get higher as things defend into the mindless action with the overpowered Kate b-lining her way through every obstacle. A fun watch if you're a fan of the action genre.

There is no doubt that how Quentin Tarantino influenced the modern film makers. There are a ton of films in the same formula as Kate. The Japanese hut combat scene reminds me of the famous action scene from Kill Bill, only this was pathetic. It should have been executed well. Even the speed of action, acting and coordination was so poor that it made the first impression wrong about the film. Villains revealing their identify keeping "Ani" in the room was the most stupidest plot reveal. Well, this twist is obvious from the beginning, almost all the films in this Genre had the same twist, it's kind of funny though. Apart from all these negatives, you can still enjoy a watchable action thriller, if you are dying to see one.

I love Winstead, but was awful to watch her jump the bandwagon of the latest crappy feminist action movie that has been dumped to streaming platforms this year. A mixture of Crank and John Wick in a very unrealistic outcome. Winstead´s presentation as an assassin is awful. Who texts confirmation messages to her next hit the day before the hit? Her tactics is also very amateur, Taking a sniper shot from kneling position is way worse than a prone position when she has the opportunity to do so. The car chase scene in this movie is also dreadfully bad, totally sped up and fake AF. It is entirely CGI and a very bad rendered one at that. Woody Harrelson has a central, but not so present role. But he can not rescue this movie one bit. Overall, this movie left me with a bad taste metal in my mouth..

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