![]() The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard) and The Protégé makes for a solid enough bit of home entertainment, when all is said and done. MOVIE THE PROTEGE MOVIEKeaton, who is arguably a decade too old for the part he's supposed to be playing, somehow makes it work through sheer charisma, and similarly somehow - unbelievably - convinces in the chemistry department, with him and Q sharing easily the best scenes in the entire movie and keeping you invested a whole lot longer than you arguably should have been. On the other hand, Maggie Q makes for a surprisingly solid lead, gifted a little more room for brutality and vague character design than perhaps some of her other work, and really finding some quality moments opposite co-star Michael Keaton. The plot here is perfunctory, the action slightly better but still pretty 'streaming level', and there's little here to denote Campbell as the man behind it all. MOVIE THE PROTEGE SERIESThe narrative here is eye-rollingly tedious, arguably made worse by now mandatory flashbacks, and really affording very little different from the far more interesting Nikita series that Maggie Q embarked upon to surprisingly decent effect (indeed all incarnations of Nikita - small and Big Screen - have their merits, but for perhaps the clumsy US remake movie which somehow managed to waste even Harvey Keitel). squarely in the 'streaming movie' department from a director who really should know better Perhaps Green Lantern really did kill his career, as, in the decade since, he's only done that Netflix movie and now this "Amazon" movie, The Protégé aka The Asset aka Made for Revenge aka The Hitman's Apprentice (but no longer called " Anna" as planned because of Besson's VERY similarly themed movie of that name), an utterly generic concept of a film gifted a spark of interest courtesy of some interesting casting and decent chemistry, but still squarely in the 'streaming movie' department from a director who really should know better. Oh and one of the best recent Jackie Chan movies, The Foreigner (on Netflix, FWIW). MOVIE THE PROTEGE TVThe man who brought Bond back with a bang not once but twice, is also the man behind the guilty pleasure that is Vertical Limit, the fun Zorro movies, Gibson's decent Edge of Darkness remake (and the original TV series) and. fine.Ĭampbell really should have a better filmography than he does. Two time best Bond director Martin Campbell, who gave us Casino Royale and Goldeneye, gifts the latest Nikita, Maggie Q, her first real shot at a decent solo lead action movie and it's. ![]()
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