Moody and Anna’s supposedly father-daughter dynamic is certainly pleasant, but the way overhearing a conversation at a restaurant is pleasant. These sound like the ingredients for a good time, but each one curdles rapidly. When Moody is attacked one night, Anna is forced to trace his assailants back to her home country, where she begins to untangle a web from Moody’s past as mysterious clean-up killer Rembrandt (Keaton), with whom she shares a connection, weaves in and out of her story. Their interactions with each other are warm and easygoing, but they work with cold-blooded, clockwork precision. The film follows Anna (Q), an international assassin trained by world-class killer Moody (Jackson), who once rescued her in her native Vietnam, and is now her partner on high-paying hit-jobs. You have to try extra hard to mess up a sure thing that’s as sure as this. The result is an anti-reel - an inverse-calling card for every participant, all of whom have proven time and time again that they could pull this off in their sleep. The Protégé, however, feels like it was assembled from filmed rehearsals on set, with everyone simply going through the motions and reserving their talents for the next proper take.
Director Martin Campbell helmed Casino Royale. In practice, it’s a black hole that consumes any hint of tension, chemistry, and excitement, which is downright shocking when you consider who’s involved and how familiar this territory is for them.
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It's here you're left yearning for more, with dialogue that's flirty, tensely charged and occasionally worthy of more.īut in truth, The Protege squanders too much of that for too little purpose. The moments where The Protege begins to gel is in its flirtation with Keaton and Q's characters.
But it's also worth acknowledging that this remains watchable enough fare in the style of the 80s B-movies that became the norm so long ago - the film morphs into a bullets and bangs outing, where enemies can fire hundreds of shots and never hit one person, but Maggie Q's Anna can fire off two shots and total the opposition with ease. If this sounds dismissive of the Protege, perhaps it is.
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While Campbell helms the action scenes with veritable aplomb, almost every single one of them feels ripped from the genre's playbook - and at times, resembles an episode of Q's Nikita TV series. It reels in all the action cliches, with a plot that barely hangs together and stops the film from being as coherent as perhaps it should.
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