
A late scene in which she struts into a lobby, sneering behind enormous sunglasses, a dangling cigarette and layers upon layers of blood and bruises, feels like ideal GIF fodder.

And she certainly looks the part of the badass heroine, at least in slo-mo. Winstead’s no-nonsense aura serves her well as Kate, a strong, silent type whose only concession to whimsy is an obsession with a particular brand of soft drink. (No points for guessing whether they’ll form an unconvincing emotional bond over their respective tragic backstories.) She has roughly one day left to live, which she chooses to spend hunting down and enacting revenge on her killers - with unexpected assistance in the form of Ani (Miku Martineau), the teen daughter of one of Kate’s recent targets. The spoiler-free version is this: Kate is an elite American assassin operating in Tokyo, who wakes up after a botched job to discover she’s been poisoned.
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Umair Aleem’s script is so predictable that it’s possible to map out the entire final act based on the first two minutes of the movie and the plot synopsis. But Kate wears its influences like borrowed clothes, never quite managing to develop a style or voice that feels wholly its own.

If its car chase feels too obviously CG even by the standards of a Fast & Furious movie, well, the vrooms and screeches still scratch a certain lizard-brain itch. If its bloody fistfights feel sluggish in comparison to the balletic grace of John Wick, well, there are worse action movies to crib from than John Wick. Netflix will debut Kate in select US theaters + streaming starting on September 10th, 2021 coming soon.Cast: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Miku Martineau, Woody HarrelsonĪll these familiar elements come together to form a movie that’s fitfully entertaining.

Produced by Bryan Unkeless, Kelly McCormick, and Patrick Newall. The screenplay is written by Umair Aleem.
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Kate is directed by French filmmaker Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, director of the film The Huntsman: Winter's War previously, plus an experienced visual effects supervisor for years before that. Starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Woody Harrelson, and directed by Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, Kate follows a burned assassin’s furious pursuit of one last self-appointed job. As her body swiftly deteriorates, Kate forms an unlikely bond with the teenage daughter of one of her past victims. But when she uncharacteristically blows an assignment targeting a member of the yakuza in Tokyo, she quickly discovers she’s been poisoned, a brutally slow execution that gives her less than 24 hours to exact revenge on her killers. Meticulous and preternaturally skilled, Kate is the perfect specimen of a finely tuned assassin at the height of her game. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Cedric Nicolas-Troyan's Kate, from Netflix's YouTube: The best thing about this is that it's set in Japan.
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In addition to MEW, the impressive full cast also includes Tadanobu Asano, Miyavi, Michiel Huisman, plus Jun Kunimura and Woody Harrelson, and introducing Miku Martineau.

This seems like a killer action concept mashing up Kill Bill and Jolt with Gunpowder Milkshake, but with Mary Elizabeth Winstead starring as the action badass Kate in this one. After she's poisoned, a ruthless criminal operative has less than 24 hours to exact revenge on her enemies and in the process forms an unexpected bond with the daughter of one of her past victims. "Kate, you're like that person in that nightmare - take no sh*t from no dudes." Netflix has unveiled the first official trailer for a new action movie called Kate, the latest feature made by the VFX supervisor-turned-director Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, who last directed the sequel The Huntsman: Winter's War.
