Kate (2021-Netflix) As a devoted fanboy of Mary Elizabeth Winstead, we couldn't wait to see her in "Kill Bill" butt-kicking mode, which, let's face it, is the one and only reason we'd sit through this re-heated, Tarantino-Lite Netflix movie.......
It does deliver what it promises, mainly our gal MEW playing Kate, a lethal assassin who shoots, stabs, chops, kicks and otherwise eviscerates a small army of Tokyo Yakuza thugs.
To her dismay, Kate discovers she's been slipped a radioactive mickey ( a la "Edmond O'Brian in the classic "D.O.A." and Dennis Quaid in the 1988 remake).. So essentially, she's dead on her feet with hours left to live, courtesy of a top crime lord avenging one of her botched assignments.
So Kate's off to take names and rack up a formidable body count as she hits the gaudy crowded Tokyo streets, tearing through the underworld like a one woman buzzsaw. Not an easy task, since the radioactive cocktail systematically eats her up alive while she's kept busy Uma Thurma-ing well dressed hit-guys into oblivion.
To make matters worse for her, (if that's at all possible) her unlikely tag-along companion though all this non-stop carnage is the teen daughter of the guy she killed in the hit gone wrong. Oopsie....That's almost as bad as her other punishing problem, her inability to find a bottle of her favorite soft drink, Boom Boom Lemon. Damn, life's a bitch.
And you can bet your sweet Kill Bill that Kate's mentor/trainer/boss/father-figure (Woody Harrelson) will factor into this storyline before the last bleeding body hits the floor.
We pretty much had the same reaction to this film as we did to "Shang Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings", which we posted on yesterday......
Dumb, dumb guilty pleasure fun.......and of course way more gore-soaked than 'Shang Chi' since 'Kate' functions without any Marvel Comics PG-13 constraints. So the blood flows and flies freely through the air, like a paint splattering competition........
And our beloved Mary Elizabeth fully throws herself into the ferociously choreographed smackdowns......making us hope all the more that one day she gets herself a well deserved major role in a some future blockbuster project,
We certainly couldn't give "Kate" any less of a rating than the 3 stars we gave "Shang Chi",....but for the presence of our longtime fave, MEW, we're upping it a 4 star (****) Ultimate Guilty Pleasure.
If only we'd had a sixpack of Boom Boom Lemon to go with the popcorn, we'd be in junk movie heaven.......
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