I’ll watch anything with Kate Beckinsale in it no matter how silly. Beckinsale plays CIA agent Avery Graves who has John Wick-type moves and is handy with a number of weapons.
Here’s how The Guardian views Canary Black:
Canary Black review – Kate Beckinsale kicks impeccably chic ass in gender-flipped Taken
Unaware he’s married to a spy, Beckinsale’s husband is kidnapped – cue the baddies demanding a secret file, fancy action sequences, lots of gunshots and a nice trenchcoat.
Pierre Morel, who oversaw the making of the first Taken film–the action thriller where a former CIA agent, Liam Neeson, pursues Bad Guys who kidnap his teenage daughter–is Director of this movie with the same motif.
Car chases, shootouts, fist-fights, and a great deal of mayhem result when Avery searches for her kidnapped husband David (Rupert Friend) and is required to steal a super secret computer file called “Canary Black” in order to satisfy the kidnappers.
No deep messages, no platitudes, no subtlety…just a fun action movie. GRADE: B
Jackie is ready to watch this now. TAKEN is one of her favorites.
Jeff, I really liked TAKEN, too. The sequels…not so much.
These days, the kick-ass protagonist is as likely to be female as male. Maybe more likely. I’d probably watch it, if we subscribed to Amazon Prime. Perhaps Beckinsale’s character can dangle the cowardly Bezos from one of his spaceships for quashing the Post’s endorsement of Kamala.
Fred, I lost a lot of respect for Bezos when he prevented the WASHINGTON POST from endorsing Kamala. What a coward!
George, hundreds of thousands have cancelled their online subscription to WAPO.. Shouldn’t they have cancelled their Amazon Prime subscriptions instead?
Jerry, I think this latest fiasco at the WASHINGTON POST resulting in thousands of cancelled subscriptions will doom the newspaper. Bezos doesn’t realize he just jettisoned the POST’s credibility for Government contracts.
Doesn’t care. THE POST was a trophy…that he was afraid would get in the way of his Blue Cashgrab contracts if Drumpf got in.
As one excellent womanfriend of mine has a long-term media crush on Beckinsale, and will possibly enjoy this, which I’m pretty sure she hasn’t seen…much less disappointing sequels.
Ah, yes, TAKEN sequels…reading while sleepy.