It’s a simple and effective set up for an action movie, a variation of it worked wonderfully for both Crank movies, but there’s nothing that requires this story be focused on the Yakuza or set in Japan, it could just as easily have been placed in New York or Moscow, or could’ve starred any Japanese actors in the Kate and Varrick roles.Īt least Kate (the movie) uses its Tokyo setting to its advantage in a variety of ways. The story begins when Kate is poisoned, takes top boss Kijima’s (Jun Kunimura) niece Ani (Miku Patricia Martineau) captive for negotiating power, and attempts to work her way through the organization to have an audience with Kijima before she dies in 24 hours.
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A lot of people have been looking forward to this movie for months now, including me, so it’s no fun to report that it’s a stunningly beautiful disappointment.įrom the start, it plays the classic game of placing white stars in an Asian setting, this time Winstead’s Kate and Woody Harrelson as her handler Varrick are in Japan working to take down Yakuza bosses, but we never get any real explanation for why they are there. The idea of Winstead playing an assassin in a stylish John Wick school of action movie after her fantastic performance as an assassin in Birds of Prey certainly contributed to the furore. The images were striking both for how stylish they looked, and for how absolutely covered in blood star Mary Elizabeth Winstead was. When the first images from Kate were released in May, the internet lost its mind.
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