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Protege film6/3/2023 Jackson) and trained in the family business, Anna (Maggie Q) is the worlds most skilled. Overall, The Protégé is a film you can put on if you're bored, but otherwise, it's a middle-of-the-road story. Rescued as a child by the legendary assassin Moody (Samuel L. But if the story were stronger, Q and her castmates would be better served. Keaton and Jackson do their best with their roles, and Q is entertaining enough in her action sequences. Jackson, Patrick Malahide, David Rintoul, Ori Pfeffer, Ray Fearon, Caroline Loncq, and Robert Patrick. Jackson) and trained in the family business, Anna (Maggie Q) is the world’s most skilled contract killer. Characterizations are simplistic and expected, and the reasons why people are out to get Moody are ill-defined. The Protg is a 2021 American action thriller film directed by Martin Campbell, written by Richard Wenk, and starring Maggie Q, Michael Keaton, Samuel L. About The Protege Rescued as a child by the legendary assassin Moody (Samuel L. The Protégé is a 2021 American action thriller film directed by Martin Campbell, written by Richard Wenk, and starring Maggie Q, Michael Keaton, Samuel L. But that alone can't save a film that has a weak story. Having Q and Jackson in the main roles is a welcome change of pace and proof that Hollywood is at least trying to heed the call of being more diverse in its casting. The film follows the usual cliché of an assassin out for revenge, with the most notable departure from the norm being that an Asian American woman and a Black man are the two lead characters. However, the storyline doesn't have enough staying power to fuel several films. But it does feel like the filmmakers might have had high hopes of starting their own franchise centered on a kick-butt female action star. Jackson) and trained in the family business, Anna (Maggie Q) is the worlds most. When Moody decides to research the life of a. In the present days, Moody has raised Anna and they are professional hitmen, living a comfortable life in London. He leaves the place with a bag of money and the girl Anna with him. To be fair, The Protégé isn't trying to be another John Wick. 'The Protégé' brings a few novel little touches to an action vehicle for Maggie Q, in part by flanking her with Michael Keaton and Samuel L. Rescued as a child by the legendary assassin Moody (Samuel L. In 1991, in Vietnam, a man finds many men dead in a building and a Vietnamese girl hidden in a closet with a pistol. This action film tries to bring something new to a genre that was already irrevocably changed (and challenged by) the John Wick franchise, but it falls short. Nearly everyone we meet in The Protégé is on the brink of retirement, all but one or two of them nudged violently in that direction by Maggie Q ’s title character.
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