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Kate will probably take her revenge, which should teach the mysterious mastermind a lesson about giving a highly trained assassin a slow-acting deadly poison, thereby ensuring said assassin has plenty of time to retaliate. Even when the odds are 20 to 1, a confident Ani assures the villains that they are outnumbered and are all going to die. Just a total killer babe." We get plenty of footage of Kate in action to demonstrate that Ani's assessment is largely correct. "You're like that person in a nightmare," she enthuses.

Frankly, Ani is more than a little taken with her new ally. "Somebody knows," Kate replies, and she sets her sights on young Ani (Miku Patricia Martineau) for information.Īni does seem to know who's behind the poisoning and offers to help. It's none other than "the grand honcho of the yakuza," who lives in the shadows and "never surfaces … ever," Varrick tells her. She tells her handler, Varrick (Woody Harrelson), that she was poisoned and asks who the target was for this job. By the time Kate checks in with a doctor, she only has 14 or 15 hours to exact revenge. The Kate trailer opens with Kate on a job that goes horribly wrong when she misses the kill shot. And the film has influenced countless more, such as the 2006 film Crank , in which Jason Statham plays a British assassin who has to keep his adrenaline levels spiking to counteract being given a deadly poison. (starring Dennis Quaid), and the 2017 film Dead on Arrival. (Due to someone not renewing the copyright on time, the film is in the public domain.) It has inspired three direct remakes: 1969's Color Me Dead, 1988's D.O.A. The basic premise of Kate is a familiar one it's essentially a twist on the classic 1950 film noir D.O.A., in which a man-a seemingly ordinary accountant and notary public-walks into a police station and says he has been poisoned, with only a few days left to live and discover who murdered him. Gunpowder Milkshake ended up feeling flat, predictable, and like an exercise in style over substance.

But as with The Old Guard, nothing really jelled, and as much as I love Karen Gillan, she seemed ill-suited to the role. Just last month, Netflix served up the disappointing Gunpowder Milkshake, which had a stellar cast and all the right elements, including some impressive fight choreography. Theron was terrific, but the film itself was uneven. First, there was 2020's The Old Guard, in which Charlize Theron leads an immortal group of mercenaries on a mission of revenge. The streaming service seems to be casting about for a female version of the hugely successful John Wick franchise, but it's harder to pull off than it looks. Ars is owned by WIRED's parent company, Condé Nast. Kate is the streaming service’s most recent woman-led action film, hot on the heels of the star-studded Gunpowder Milkshake, starring Karen. It turns out, getting revenge isn’t as easy as she thinks. Her goal: to kill the person responsible. This story originally appeared on Ars Technica, a trusted source for technology news, tech policy analysis, reviews, and more. Imagine an unstoppable assassin who realizes she’s been poisoned and only has 24 hours to live.