She puts in a solid performance as we’re initially introduced to her suave assassin, and over the 105 minute runtime proceeds to get increasingly beaten, battered, and bruised, as well as having to deal with teeth falling out and nose bleeds from the poison literally making her body gradually fall apart.
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Most viewers will likely know Winstead as either The Huntress from 2020’s Birds of Prey, or as the daughter of John McClane in Live Free or Die Hard and A Good Day to Die Hard. There’re even a few nods to Crank throughout, from the heartbeat sound effect whenever the poison threatens to take hold, to at its most gratuitous, the same ‘finger gun’ gimmick being used in one of its action scenes. It’s at this point that I realised Kate is basically a Netflix-centric remake of Crank, the riotous 2006 Jason Statham vehicle that sees him in exactly the same situation, only with the variable that he has to keep his adrenaline levels up to prevent the poison from stopping his heart. With only 24 hours to live, armed with a handful of transfusions and a devil may care attitude, she embarks on a bloody mission to get to the bottom of who poisoned her and put a bullet in their head. Kate has an ace up its sleeve though that’s only revealed when the plot quickly moves on to 10 months later in Tokyo, and Winstead finds herself poisoned with radioactive material as part of a revenge plot by her targets brother. With the yakuza boss in question being particularly elusive, the powers that be insist she goes through with it, leaving the daughter splattered in her father’s blood, and an assassin with the required tortured soul plot device.
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When it’s revealed his daughter is also with him though, it breaches the assassins code to never go through with a hit if a child is involved. Opening in Osaka, we meet Winstead as the titular Kate is about to take out a yakuza boss. The sophomore feature length production of director Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, who primarily worked as a visual effects artist before debuting with the sequel The Huntsman: Winter’s War in 2016 (notably he was the visual effects supervisor on the first one with 2012’s Snow White and the Huntsman), Kate takes place in a hyper stylised version of Japan.
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Needless to say that for those who clock into movies hoping for a shred of originality, Kate isn’t going to be the movie for you.
Next out of the ranks is Kate, which sees Mary Elizabeth Winstead play a world-weary assassin reluctantly teamed up with the daughter of one of her hits. We’ve also had Jason Momoa play a grieving father reluctantly teamed up with his daughter to take out the big pharma CEO he holds responsible for his wife’s death in Sweet Girl. We’ve had Chris Hemsworth play a tortured mercenary reluctantly teamed up with the son of a drug lord he’s been paid to protect in Extraction. Make them a tortured soul due to some generic trauma that happened in the past, have them reluctantly team up with a much younger character, and insert a straightforward plot that allows for an action scene to never be too far away. The Netflix action flick template is a fairly predictable one at this point – take one adult character with the ability to cause plentiful grievous bodily harm. Cast: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Miku Martineau, Woody Harrelson, Jun Kunimura, Tadanobu Asano, Michiel Huisman, Miyavi, Gemma Brooke Allen
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