![]() None of this is more than surface deep, but the playful antagonism provides a welcome change of pace from the expected revenge tropes and run-and-gun action. Rembrandt is more aggressive about the courtship than Anna, although Anna isn’t exactly appalled by the advances. is gorgeous and Michael Keaton is still a stud at 69 (nice), it’s no surprise that both fancy-pants, trivia-spouting mercenaries take a liking to each other. While the marketing sells Michael Keaton as the primary antagonist, he’s actually a professional stuck in the middle of this chaos as a professional problem solver employed by the bad guys. For reasons best explained by the movie, the first act ends with Moody gunned down in his own bathtub.Īnna isn’t thrilled about this development, and the rest of the film concerns her investigations into the who, what and why of Moody’s death. ![]() Moody, on his last legs due to an unnamed illness (he’s got a “movie death cough,” which is all you need to know), is the introspective and remorseful one, although some of his monologues about being a righteous assassin who only targets bad guys but knows he too is a villain makes him like the more introspective cousin of Darius Kincaid from The Hitman’s Bodyguard. Those two factors alone set it apart from almost any female assassin movie you can think of. This is a rare lady assassin flick that isn’t drowning in despair, about its heroine trying to escape the life and/or about its “bad ass” protagonist protecting a child.
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