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Is this a female John Wick?
Not that I'm not up for that...(excuse the double negative).
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Si Wooldridge
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Hmm... style over content isn't buttering many parsnips these days, even the last John Wick came across as tired & old hat. Still, lokks worth a watch, and nice to see Karen still getting the big roles.
Also, not sure how Lena felt about being asked to play karen's mum - there's only 14 years between them
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Si Wooldridge says...
"Is this a female John Wick?"
Yes, yes it was. Even down to the clandestine underground machinations behind seemingly respectable establishments. Not a hotel this time, but a diner & a library. Although anyone checking one of the larger books out mind find large gaps in the stories.
Speaking of which, it's pretty thin. Karen plays a hitman, who is hired to kill a guy who stole a ton of money, but he stole it to pay the ransom for his daughter, so karen does the exchange instead, but the hostage taking bad guys destroy the money, even though the first lot of bad guys who wanted the daughter's dad dead wants their money back. Cue two hours of track zooms, dolly shots, slow-motion gunfights all to carefully chosen music and overbearing lighting choices. All the while looking after the daughter & reuniting with her estranged mother.
It's no Tarantino, although everything in this genre seems to be trying to be 'the next...'. Karen really isn't that suited to a leading role like this, not yet. The other ladies (Bassett, Gugino, Yeoh) also lay the sass on a little thick. It's barely enjoyable. Teenage girls might get more out of it, but as someone who this movie obviously wasn't made for, this just didn't do anything that didn't come off as 'trying too hard to be original', while looking like 20 films before it.
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