If you start to analyze every little details in the script and try to find stuff that is not realistic or that is questionable when it comes to American secret services, yes you will... Its not the point of it. This is a love letter to action movies of the 80s and 90s. Its not meant to be extra cleaver.
We keep begging for female characters that are badass and not woke and this is exactly it. Miles does not have to put any men down (well in a woke way with crappy dialogue i mean) to be a badass action heroine and do ass kicking. She just do her job as a new secret service agent and you even get some nice character developement between her and the President without falling in the bad tropes. And the President is never meant to look like a weak idiot just to boost Miles character.
There is plenty of action in the movie and its very well filmed. Yes Katherine Mcnamara is not the biggest or bulkiest woman but she still look very credible in every action scenes and if/when she was replace by a body double i didn't notice it like its often the case in bad VOD movies.
This was in select theatres from what i heard but its mostly a VOD release and yet it look pretty good production wise. The characters and their interactions were good, the story is simple but serviceable, the action is top notch and brutal, this is a perfect throwback to the action style of the 80s with a huge body count and the protagonist being a woman never felt forced or out of place.
Kat McNamara is establishing herself as a cool badass protagonist after her role as Mia Smoak in Arrow and now this. Im down to see more of her in action for sure.
Some may say my note is high but i had legitly a ton of fun with the movie, more than the movies i rate a 7, so its worth an 8 to me and that is just it ! Not gonna lie, i was eager to watch it mostly because i enjoy Katherine McNamara as an actress but i was not expecting much, and if the movie had been mediocre, i wouldn't had hesitated to rate it as such. But, especially for a VOD release, it exceeded said expectations by far and i think its definately fair to congrat the team on a cool movie and rate accordingly.
We keep begging for female characters that are badass and not woke and this is exactly it. Miles does not have to put any men down (well in a woke way with crappy dialogue i mean) to be a badass action heroine and do ass kicking. She just do her job as a new secret service agent and you even get some nice character developement between her and the President without falling in the bad tropes. And the President is never meant to look like a weak idiot just to boost Miles character.
There is plenty of action in the movie and its very well filmed. Yes Katherine Mcnamara is not the biggest or bulkiest woman but she still look very credible in every action scenes and if/when she was replace by a body double i didn't notice it like its often the case in bad VOD movies.
This was in select theatres from what i heard but its mostly a VOD release and yet it look pretty good production wise. The characters and their interactions were good, the story is simple but serviceable, the action is top notch and brutal, this is a perfect throwback to the action style of the 80s with a huge body count and the protagonist being a woman never felt forced or out of place.
Kat McNamara is establishing herself as a cool badass protagonist after her role as Mia Smoak in Arrow and now this. Im down to see more of her in action for sure.
Some may say my note is high but i had legitly a ton of fun with the movie, more than the movies i rate a 7, so its worth an 8 to me and that is just it ! Not gonna lie, i was eager to watch it mostly because i enjoy Katherine McNamara as an actress but i was not expecting much, and if the movie had been mediocre, i wouldn't had hesitated to rate it as such. But, especially for a VOD release, it exceeded said expectations by far and i think its definately fair to congrat the team on a cool movie and rate accordingly.