Diagonaldi
Very well executed
Stometer
Save your money for something good and enjoyable
Sameer Callahan
It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.
jpgougouh
The women loves the little boy just because he is black like she is, and she trust him only because he is black like she is. She wants to avenge anything that has been done to him just because he is black like she is. She let him stay alone in her apartment without even knowing him, trusting him just because he is black like she is. She kills 3 guy right from the start, in which one is pretty dangerous, only because the boy is black like she is. Etc etc etc..
I am not surprised, but I don't like it.
djcarter-926-246180
I enjoyed the action of the film. The faults of the movie falls on the shoulders of the directors or writers. I believe this movie had the potential to do really well if they had added a little more to the storyline. Maybe their should've been some sort of character development for Mary, like as we watch we see her evolve into a total badass character. And also the movie should've been slightly more realistic as far as the shooting. Mary dodged a few hundred bullets in that last scene and not one of them even grazed her? Yet she was able to shoot and completely kill everyone who crossed her path. C'mon, really? Also, maybe a little less focus on the kid. And they barely addressed the fact that Mary killed his father. That should've been much bigger and related to the plot. For example, Mary couldve once been very heartless and a bitch, and then meets the kid and he softens her up and she becomes more motherly to protect him but still a really good assassin but now she's in it for the right reasons.
friendful
I have to start by saying this trope is my utter catnip. Leon, Man on Fire, The Man From Nowhere, Safe, heck I even watched Rocky Handsome! If there's a dangerous killer with a PAST protecting a kid I will watch. What I'm saying is that I was definitely the target audience for this movie.
When I saw the initial teaser I was excited because Henson is a fave and action movies are a fave, so yay! Then I saw the blurb and be still my heart, catnip. I was so disappointed that it didn't show in my city for some reason. I checked regularly and it still makes no sense to me that we never got it as it showed in podunk but not a metro area. But FINALLY I got to see it and it was better than I expected. It's very easy to mess a trope like this up (I'm looking at you "Security"), so I appreciated that it wasn't afraid to slow the pace and have those quiet moments that show us the emotional connections involved.
That said, it had its flaws. We were supposed to feel the Mary's emotional connection with certain characters, but the filmmaker made the unfortunate decision to do more telling than showing. I understand time constraints but if you're going to choose to approach this trope in this manner... you need to provide that screen time. I actually think most of the flaws would have been avoided if that one issue had been fixed. They all kind of flow from it, directly or indirectly. If it weren't for that (sadly common) mistake this could have easily received full stars from me.
It's probably going to go on the catnip rewatch list, but I'd be careful who I recommended it to because not everyone has the devotion to this trope that I do. My mom? Not so much. My step-mum? Probably. My siblings? My dad? My step-dad? My auntie? Definitely.
mts-78680
As in my title I'm bias for Taraji, otherwise I would have given this a 2 for action and soundtrack. Script was sad and predictable. Was a 70's style movie that they must have tried to bring back to this era like a throwback, lol.Good casting who must have owed a favor to somebody. Definitely a cable or video only movie.
