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About Movie
Director: Martin Campbell
Featuring: Maggie Q, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Keaton
Type: Action, Crime, Thriller
Delivered on: 20 Aug 2021
Essayist: Richard Wenk
IMDB Rating: 6.1/10
Term: 109 min
Movie Review
The Protege is middle-of-the-road but halfway respectable, often nice but never amazing, and occasionally awful but never horrible. I believe there are shrugs all around in The Protege. But if you're forced to watch Maggie Q do her thing – a perfectly legitimate cause! - you'll be rewarded little.
Story
1991, DA NANG, Vietnam: It's pouring outside, and Samuel L. Jackson emerges from it like any rational person would. He's claiming some stray cash on a table when he hears a knock from a wardrobe cabinet, pulls out his revolver. Unlocks the door, and finds a girl, about 10 years old, holding a weapon at him. "Did you do all that?" he asks, motioning to the dead and blood, and there's a good chance she did.
They march out of there together, and 30 years later, they're 30 decades older, because that's how it works, there's no resisting the certainty of time. Moody and Anna (Maggie Q) are tough assassination partners. He's the wise old man, and she's the titular character.
There's a whole thing where she kidnaps a rich guy's son and then allows herself to be caught so she can stab the rich guy and neck-snap one of his guards. And when the other goons chase her, Moody pot shots 'em from over yonder, and that way, we get a look at how they work together, and also. The movie can have an exciting action sequence right up flanks. Jackson can drop an MF-bomb in less than 10 minutes, which is fine since I think he enjoys being that guy.
Moody and Anna have a close surrogate-father/daughter relationship, as one would anticipate. They are from London. He has a magnificent house and she buys him Albert King's '58 Gibson Flying V on his b'day, so killing people must be a successful career. She runs a rare book shop, presumably as a hobby, but also as a front; she has a cat who she lets stand on the kitchen counter even when she's cooking. And while I love cats as much as anyone. I can't bear it when they have little icky bits of litter between their toes.
I believe this suggests she feels lonely, but should we read too much into it? It's difficult to say. Another day, Moody announces that the next project needs a return trip to Vietnam, and not long after that. Michael Keaton walks into Anna's bookshop and does that pursed-lip/arched-eyebrow thing. While they discuss a $256,000 first-edition Edgar Allan Poe collection. Keaton portrays Rembrandt, a figure who, when he steps into your life, is a sure sign of doom. And sure enough, the crap soon crashes the fan.
Because she is the invincible action figure here. Beautifully talented at getting into and out of scuffs and preventing the police and, apparently, airport security checks. Because she's back in Da Nang on a vengeance mission before you know it. It's at this point that we begin to wonder how many bullets can FIT in a handgun before it runs out. How long poor Anna can survive the enhanced interrogation, and why, after doing all kinds of elusive and aggressive smarter-and-faster-and-deadlier-than-thou super warrior acrobatics.
This film's strong strength is action, but logic is certainly not one of them.
Best Dialogue
"I"m testy. And trust me, you don’t want to know me when I’m testy.” Anna throws around a little highly credible Bruce Banner verbal-warning muscle.
