IMDb plot summary: A female assassin has 24 hours to get vengeance on her poisoner before she dies.
Directed by Cedric Nicoas-Troyan. Starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Woody Harrelson, and Miku Patricia Martineau.
You know how you have those years when movies with identical premises come out at the same time? Well, Kate, which I just watched, reminds me very much of Gunpowder Milkshake -- both are neon-colored movies about female assassins who have to work together with the young daughter of a previous target to take down a now-corrupt organization before they die. In fact, the more I think about how to separate them out from each other, the harder it is to do so. I think Mary Elizabeth Winstead is probably the key factor for me in nudging Kate slightly ahead. She has a determined weariness that works really well for her in this film. I also really like Miku Patricia Martineau as Ani. She so naturally transforms her character's teenage angst into gleeful empowerment, and the two of them have some great interactions. The action scenes are pretty good, and the visuals are more interesting and prettier here than they were in Gunpowder, and even while the movie's ending is pretty easy to see coming, the actors pull off the emotional weight of it. It's fine.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Kate < Sunday in the Park with George
Kate > Our Idiot Brother
Kate > Batman: Under the Red Hood
Kate > Plains, Trains & Automobiles
Kate > Shame (1968)
Kate < Letters from Iwo Jima
Kate > The Lighthouse
Kate < The Firemen's Ball
Kate > The Dinner Guest
Kate > Downfall
Kate < Grand Illusion
Final spot: #1816 out of 3489, or 48%.
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