Mark Burnell transformed his novel into a screenplay: one would hope the novel was more sensitive and expletive than the rambling and somewhat disjointed screenplay. Reed Murano directs and the producers are the James Bond crew, so the foundation is solid and the film tries very hard to warrant viewership.
The cast is excellent and works diligently to make each character memorable - if even just through the perplexing timeframe of the film's story! Quite simply distilled, the plot concerns a woman Stephanie Patrick (Blake Lively), addicted to drugs and working as a prostitute in a state of fragile reality as a result of the death of her family in a plane crash - a trip on which she was supposed to join with them, who discovers the plane crash was planned as she encounters the kind 'client' Keith Proctor (Raza Jeffrey). She gathers her senses and with the training of the odd ex-MI6 agent Iain Boyd (Jude Law) she becomes an assassin, committed to kill the man who planned and executed the tragic plane crash, Another 'aid' in her plan is Marc Serra (Sterling K. Brown), and despite futile attempts to assassinate the true propagator of the aerial crime, the identity of the that person is confusing to both Stephanie and the audience!
Despite the incongruities of the story, the film is entertaining, allow the viewer to appreciate the performances is not the plot. Grady Harp, June 21.
The cast is excellent and works diligently to make each character memorable - if even just through the perplexing timeframe of the film's story! Quite simply distilled, the plot concerns a woman Stephanie Patrick (Blake Lively), addicted to drugs and working as a prostitute in a state of fragile reality as a result of the death of her family in a plane crash - a trip on which she was supposed to join with them, who discovers the plane crash was planned as she encounters the kind 'client' Keith Proctor (Raza Jeffrey). She gathers her senses and with the training of the odd ex-MI6 agent Iain Boyd (Jude Law) she becomes an assassin, committed to kill the man who planned and executed the tragic plane crash, Another 'aid' in her plan is Marc Serra (Sterling K. Brown), and despite futile attempts to assassinate the true propagator of the aerial crime, the identity of the that person is confusing to both Stephanie and the audience!
Despite the incongruities of the story, the film is entertaining, allow the viewer to appreciate the performances is not the plot. Grady Harp, June 21.