![]() The 24 hours to die gimmick is of course nothing new (it recalls both 1950’s DOA and its 80s remake as well as countless copycats) but the radiation touch is at least an effectively gnarly update as Kate’s body slowly disintegrates over the course of the movie. There’s a wild, kinetic car chase and some nifty, gory fight scenes and a real sense of place, utilising the ability to actually shoot on location (remember, low bar). ![]() The film around her is at least a tad more realised, directed with a rambunctious energy and while Nicolas-Troyan’s influences are worn on his sleeves and entire outfit as a whole, he’s able to give Kate that much-needed boost that makes it into a real movie rather than a Netflix movie. The attempts to show that she does actually have some individualism and distinguishability are too mild (she likes lemon soda) and too rote (she stares at kids sometimes because ovaries) and so despite the film being named after her character, Kate is utterly anonymous. Kate is told that she is less a person and more of an instrument and despite Winstead trying her very best, that’s far too true of the character, even by the finale, who does little more than point and shoot. It’s a particularly frustrating way used by mostly male screenwriters to humanise female killers, also used recently in Netflix’s other neon-hued assassin film of the summer Gunpowder Milkshake, as if strong-willed women need to be reminded of their maternal instincts. ![]() The quest reunites her with the girl she orphaned (because of course) which lumbers the film with an age-old trope of the cold-blooded killer who warms around the presence of a child. It’s time to quit but on her last job, Kate is given irreversible radiation poisoning and has just 24 hours to figure out who wants her dead and why. She’s urged to pull the trigger, though, and 10 months later, finds herself still quietly haunted by what she did. ![]() But as her mark gets into view, she sees that his daughter is by his side, her “no kids” rule stopping her from making a clean shot. It’s Osaka and trained killer Kate (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) is prepping for a job accompanied by her boss, mentor and father figure Varrick (Woody Harrelson). It’s cobbled together from so many familiar ingredients that I was surprised to find out that an actual human (Umair Aleem) wrote it rather than some sort of computer and even viewers with a vague knowledge of the assassin subgenre will feel a suffocating sense of deja vu from the cold open onwards. Middleton is reportedly “appalled” by the revelations in the memoir and feels that Harry’s “actions are atrocious.” A source told Us Weekly she regards the prince as “dragging her name through the dirt” and “is finding it hard to forgive.” Other claims in the book describe awkward encounters and a general unease between Middleton and Markle.That’s just about the amount that this deserves, a serviceable Friday night choice that gets the job done just fine, enough to turn it into a hit for the streamer (the far less convincing Jason Momoa actioner Sweet Girl skirted around their top 10 for much longer than deserved) but not quite enough to insist that anyone actually bothers to make time for it, unless drunk or out of all other options. Worse than Willy’s leotard outfit! Way more ridiculous! Which, again, was the point.” Nazi uniform, they said.” And the reaction when he put on the uniform? The prince wrote, “they both howled. Harry wrote in the memoir: “I phoned Willy and Kate, asked what they thought. In his memoir, he writes that he did not come to the decision to wear the costume on his own, but was encouraged to do so by the future king of the United Kingdom, his older brother William, Prince of Wales, and sister-in-law Kate Middleton, Princess of Wales. And that is the point at which people start to have to understand.” Harry expanded on unconscious bias, saying, “I’m not saying you’re a racist, I’m just saying that your unconscious bias is proving that because of the way that you’ve been brought up, the environment you’ve been brought up in, suggests that you have this point of view-unconscious point of view-where naturally you will look at someone in a different way.
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