![]() Even the title character feels like an extension of star Mary Elizabeth Winstead’s other vengeful assassin character from Birds of Prey." (It is actually directed by a human, Cedric Nicolas-Troyan.) It’s a little bit Extraction, a little bit Gunpowder Milkshake. " You’ve seen Kate before in other movies, which a cynic might suspect is exactly the idea: It feels like a title cooked up by the Netflix algorithm solely for the purpose of populating a Because You Watched row. And it’s somewhat obvious to Nicolas-Troyan that the audience doesn’t really care.” ![]() “ The body count becomes numbing… The film tries to make the audience care about Kate’s possible redemption… it’s beyond obvious where this is going, that all this talk of family will sour into betrayal and eventually, a climax that postures as an emotional revelation. ![]() So what do the negative reviews for Kate say? Instead, reviewers have noted that earlier action thrillers like Charlize Theron-starring Atomic Blonde featured strikingly similar heroines, while the recent Gunpowder Milkshake even saw star Karen Gillan playing not only an assassin going up against former employers but one who befriended a young girl to humanize her killer character (as Kate does in this Netflix effort). ![]() However, this conceit is not the element that many critics have singled out as being unoriginal in the case of Kate. It is hard to deny that the plot of Kate is more than a bit derivative, with the premise of an antihero being given a brief window for vengeance before their death already being exploited by 2006’s wildly underrated Jason Statham cult oddity Crank. Related: Fall 2021 Movie Preview: Every Movie Releasing (And Where To Watch Them) ![]()
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