The Protégé - Movie Review

Be prepared for a pleasant surprise when you do go to see the female John Wick as portrayed by Maggie O. If you were a fan of the La Femme Nikita TV series and its spinoff, succinctly and simply named NIKITA (also starring Maggie O), you will not be disappointed. ​A strong supporting cast of Samuel L Jackson and Michael Keaton will add to your appreciation of an action story line that is interesting and screened with enough hand to hand and bullet to bullet confrontations to keep you in your seats. Samuel L Jackson is a very successful assassin who operates with a simple moral code of only killing the bad guys who deserve killing. Accept the fact that killing can only have a moral code in the mind of the assassin. While on some mission in Viet Nam, he comes upon a brutal assassination of what appears to be an entire Vietnamese family. The only survivor being a young girl who he saves, cares for and becomes her mentor and father figure. Advance 30 years to the time when Maggio O has joined the family business and she too has become a well-trained world class assassin. 

The story line will become apparent when our female assassin comes home to find her mentor/father figure apparently murdered. The rest of the story line will consist of her efforts to track down and kill any and all of those involved in her father's murder. It is the very well written and acted verbal and physical repartee between Keaton and Maggie O - which make this movie both interesting and entertaining. Not your typical blood and guts shootem up where the body count becomes the focal point of the movie. Be prepared for a surprise in the story line near its conclusion which will add to your enjoyment and add significance to the final scenes of the movie. Action-packed! I love Michael Keaton! And Maggie Q, wow! and, obviously, Samuel Jackson! Stellar cast that really delivers. I thoroughly enjoyed the whole movie overall--the stunts, the fights, a great storyline with some excellent twists. They play off each other really well, and there's that element of dry humor too. Call me easily entertained, but I'd highly recommend it! Disclaimer: there is quite a lot of violence, somewhat graphic/traumatic at times, so not a good movie for kids or those less inclined to that much killing (not desensitized?). Robert Patrick turns up in the movie too! He's great. I won't spoil the ending, but most of the movie isn't what you'd expect. I did hope for a slightly different outcome, but it was fitting, I'll just leave it at that!