![]() ![]() There is no chance of survival she has about twenty four hours to find the person responsible and get her revenge. ![]() In hospital she learns that she had been poisoned before the job got underway. She chases the target but crashes her car. This doesn't go to plan and she lets the target live. Of course she will have to undertake one final mission. Ten months later she is in Tokyo and still bothered about the girl witnessing the killing and wants to quit. In the opening scenes we see her take out a member of the Yakuza in Osaka in front of his brother and daughter. Ridiculous body count which could have, with small changes to the plot, be significantly reduced and the time gained spent on storytelling.įrom childhood Kate has been trained to be the perfect assassin. Bottom line: a predictable story from start to finish, but made well and acted well. Kudos also to Jun Kunimura, who can, with a slight adjustment of body posture and a couple of facial expressions, tell an entire story in a second. In fact, every other actor is an extra in the plot anyway, so she either made this film work or not. What shines trough the bland plot is the acting of Mary Elizabeth Winstead, who singlehandedly carries the film through. Of course, the main character is female now, but you've seen this film before, a few times perhaps, and everything is pretty standard. Stylish, with Japanese neo-noir design, involving the Yakuza and greedy Westerners, it is a return to the 90s stories, where lone gunmen (people?) were dealing their own brand of justice in a corrupt and decadent world full of greed and inequality. Kate is a story of a perfect assassin, betrayed and raising hell in the name of vengeance as poison is slowly killing her. The world works in a kind of spiral, where everything 30 years ago becomes popular again, with small alterations.
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