Unfortunately, promising subplots go unexplored, and character notes float aimlessly in the air.
That is why The Protégé’s failings on those levels are so disheartening since, despite the film’s predictability, the blueprint is there for something emotionally compelling. (He noted that The Mask of Zorro needed a massive rewriting merely to enhance character development and comedy.) When I interviewed him last year, he made it clear that the “emotional spine” of these stories, as well as the brightness of the characterizations, would set them apart. Campbell understands that we don’t go to such films to be moved we go to see people break each other’s necks. And as she continues on her path of vengeance, we realize that she will finally confront her horrific past, which we see in short flashes. Anna has refused to return to Vietnam for years, and the gleaming, contemporary cityscape she has encountered appears to be a long cry from the Da Nang she once knew. The storyline, written by Richard Wenk (The Equalizer 2, The Expendables 2, Jack Reacher 2), is essentially an action-movie mad lib, but Campbell manages to inject some mood into it. Among those she seeks is the quick-witted Rembrandt (Michael Keaton), her mystery quarry’s deadly main henchman, with whom she develops a reportedly quick-witted, cat-and-mouse rapport. She re-connects with some old pals who lead a biker gang and explores sites from her past. Anna returns to Vietnam to find the perpetrators, who may or may not be connected to an international arms dealer and power broker in Da Nang. She was suspecting that the reason for the hit was Moody’s quest for the location of the kid of a man he killed many years ago.
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One day, a gang of shooters killed Moody, who looks to be terminally ill with an unidentified movie disease that causes him to cough. They now operate their company from London, utilizing an old bookstore (one of Anna’s interests) as a front. Jackson), the man who saved her from slaughter in Vietnam when she was a youngster in the early 1990s. Anna (Maggie Q) is an accomplished international tracker and assassin who collaborates with fellow assassin Moody Dutton (Samuel L. So, why does the film so often fall flat? While the narrative is fundamental, it appears to have enough emotional punch to keep us engaged.
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