The same, alas, can’t be said for the supporting cast. Winstead infuses Kate with a brooding, frustrated rage that elevates the character slightly from the emotionally-stunted assassin on the page, which translates into the skin-of-her-teeth scrappiness with which she conducts herself in battle. Plus, she’s hardly invincible, as evidenced by the ticking clock of her rapidly pureeing insides. The best moments of choreography entail Kate having to wriggle her way out of being on the back foot of a fight, finding whatever she can to throw, toss, or stick in an enemy’s flesh. There’s a visceral desperation to her physicality that’s really cool to see - her takedowns of the various yakuza toughs who come her way are hardly ever easy, especially when she has to drop the gun and go hand-to-hand. Winstead’s already proven her action chops as the oft-overlooked Huntress in Birds of Prey, and Kate is a great showcase for what she can do as an action heroine. Kickass Kate: Still, as formulaic as Kate can be on a story level, director Cedric Nicolas-Troyan ( The Huntsman: Winter’s War) at least injects some welcome thrills into the actual set pieces. That’s not to say it’s a cancellable offense, necessarily, but it just doesn’t do anything interesting with the setting. All told, it feels rather like a movie about white people appropriating the “cool” factor of Japanese crime thrillers for their own action flick, with little to say about the cultural divides inherent in the premise. The opening titles appear first as Japanese kanji before unfurling into English major set pieces are punctuated with bubbly J-pop for extra juxtaposition Winstead tries her hand at some nihongo herself when talking to some yakuza goons. One of Kate’s variations on the theme is its rain-soaked Japanese setting, which is somewhat novel but in a way that feels more than a bit fetishistic. Kate is but the latest of that crop (other examples include The Old Guard, Extraction, and last month’s Sweet Girl), all of which follow a simple formula: Get an A/B-tier movie star, dump all your effort into the stunts and enough neon light to hide your cheap locations, make it as much like John Wick as possible, and you’re off to the races. Netflix and Kill: One of Netflix’s most recently-cornered markets is the mid-budget action thriller, the kind of mid-budget shoot-em-ups that used to be de rigueur for theatrical mayhem before movie theaters were swallowed whole by the unholy IP maelstrom. To do it, she’ll have to team up with a rambunctious young teenager (Miku Martineau) - whose father she killed on a prior mission - to tear through the dueling halves of the Japanese mafia. Things get complicated when unseen forces fatally poison her, giving her only 24 hours to find out who’s responsible and make them pay before she croaks. But she’s looking to retire, and has to go on - you guessed it - one last job to do it. The Kijima clan try to kill her, but Kate saves Ani's life and agrees to take her along to find Kijima.The Pitch: Kate ( Mary Elizabeth Winstead) is your classic stone-cold movie assassin: She’s a crack shot, has nerves of steel, and (in the fashion of a dozen female hitmen before her) was trained from childhood to kill by a friendly, paternal handler ( Woody Harrelson) who will almost certainly prove a thorn in her side by film’s end. Kate tracks down various gangsters until she's told that Kijima's niece, Ani (Miku Martineau), could lead her to him so Kate kidnaps her, only for her to reveal that Kijima doesn't care about her. Kate tracks down Stephen, who reveals the hit (which he didn't realise was lethal and thought was only a roofie) was ordered by the Kijima family. Varrick gives her one last job, but after a night out with a man named Stephen (Michael Huisman, Game of Thrones) a sickly Kate messes up her shot and discovers she's been poisoned with Polonium-204. Traumatised by what she's done, Kate wants to retire. She's ordered to take the shot, even if it means either killing the girl or leaving her a traumatised bystander, so Kate does and watches as the girl screams for help over her dad's dead body. We begin with Kate on a job (taking out the Kijima family one by one) but the lone male target, the Kijima clan's leader, is soon joined by his young daughter, a breach of Kate's 'no kids' protocol. Jasin Boland Netflix Kate ending explained
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