Kate (2021)

Kate (2021)

 

3/10

Starring

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Miku Martineau

Woody Harrelson

 

Directed by Cedric Nicolas-Troyan

 

When you sit down to watch Kate, you get from the start that this is something you’ve seen before, and I guess the producers felt it was okay to do it again. I think the best way to rate this film is to let you know it’s a B-movie with subpar graphics. The car chase looked like something they lifted from the video game Need for Speed. While everything else in the movie felt like derivatives from other films involving female assassins and their controllers getting into sticky situations, there’s nothing fresh about it.

When numerous movies start to feel alike, there’s no longer a thrill. You can guess your way through the plot from the first minute. How the makers expect you, in good conscience, to recommend this movie to another person, beats me.

The movie had a flat take on its own story, and the characters (except for Kate) were just redundant and bland. All through, you’re made to feel like you’re waiting for something to happen, which never does.

So, what is Kate?

You start with a character (Kate the assassin) who grows a conscience when it comes to a kill. Because, as you can guess, the kill’s daughter was present. Well, Kate carries on with the job even though she tries to object to it, and we now have a devastated daughter. At this point, you’ll be able to guess that circumstances will add up and a series of unfortunate events will bring the two together.

Fast-forward to a one-night stand, and Kate gets poisoned with a radioactive element, which now gives her one day to live. She gathers up some adrenaline shots and goes hunting for the bad guy she believes was behind her poisoning.

It turns out, the suspected man, as you can guess, is related to the person she killed and is the uncle of the little girl. Kate kidnaps the girl with only one thing in mind: getting the bad guy to show up so she can kill him and die in peace.

This lack of innovation is caked with bad CGI, weird gunfights, plot holes, and some not-so-necessary incidents that only make you question if the makers think you’re dumb.

This movie is on Netflix, and I believe Netflix needs to step up on all the trashy, skip-worthy movies they’ve had their hands in nowadays.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead, on her own, took the movie more seriously than it deserved.