KATE NETFLIX JOJIMA SERIES

вЂKateвЂ™ had great potential and couldвЂ™ve been more fun with a shorter run-time. Maybe the motive was to make it seem more realistic, the song is part of the scene, playing on the speakers and does not match with whatвЂ™s happening, but cвЂ™mon you cannot pick such a bad track that it makes the viewer roll their eyes and press the fast-forward button. A SUPER ANNOYING song plays during the fight-sequence with Jojima, and even their skirmishes were kind of awkward. The choice of background music was weird in parts, especially in a prolonged face-off Kate has with a tattooed dude called Jojima (played by Miyavi, a Japanese musician). The cinematography is straight out of an A level action video game, and since the story unfolds in Japan, the makers give us a strong sense of setting вЂ“ so you have vending machines that dispense clothes, fancy restaurants with Geishas, and large buildings with anime playing over them. The whole вЂloveless child & heartless assassinвЂ™ going on an suicidal adventure turns the stylish action film into a bit of a snooze-fest. Miku Patricia Martineau plays Ani, and even though she is endearing as an unloved kid growing up in a Yakuza household, the character is given needless space.

And when the badass protagonist goes soft, things get slow, emotional and predictably boring. Do you know what happens when a morally grey protagonist meets a child in a film? They get soft. Ani doesnвЂ™t know this, but Kate needs Ani to get to those who poisoned her. And whatвЂ™s cooler than an adrenaline fueled woman beautifully beating the shit out of fully grown evil men?Д«ut like hinted earlier, things are great only for the first 40 minutes, from there on, things go downhill, because Kate is reunited with a teen called Ani during her revenge-rage-rampage, a teen whose dad she killed 10 months ago. But like a good-old action fan, I am willing to suspend logic if the makers serve entertaining fights. I am no medical expert, but the whole bit about Kate going violently berserk while she is also dying (sustaining herself on medication) seemed far-fetched. As per the official synopsis - 'Meticulous and preternaturally skilled, Kate is the perfect specimen of a finely tuned assassin at the height of her game.

KATE NETFLIX JOJIMA SERIES

There is a kick-ass sequence where she brutally kills a series of men belonging to a Yakuza clan, and the makers do not hold back any punches. Mary Elizabeth Winstead is badass as the ruthless Kate вЂ“ a mix of terminator and Alice from вЂResident EvilвЂ™. On the day of her last hit-job, she is poisoned and has 24 hours to extract revenge from those who targeted her. Directed by Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, written by Umair Aleem, the story is set in Japan and follows Kate, an assassin with a reputation of never having missed a shot. The first 40 minutes of the 2021 Netflix thriller film вЂњKateвЂќ looked like a suave live-action version of an action anime.

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