Then there's Mary Elizabeth Winstead, for whom this must have been a cathartic trip, letting loose on everything that her Birds of Prey character of Huntress really should have been, getting taken apart piece by piece as she endures one hell of a painful 24 hours just to get some vengeance-fuelled closure. it feels like Leon, Man on Fire, Crank, and Mel Gibson's Edge of Darkness were all put in a blender with some luminescent gel and a female Japanese hard-rock band called Band-Maid Slap a women's name on it as the title, and boom, we're good to go! What's the latest target then? The Luc Besson-scripted, Kevin Costner-starring, Liam Neeson-style actioner, 3 Days to Kill, itself a generic splice of a dozen better ideas from a clutch of far better movies (Besson's own Leon, Man on Fire, Crank.), and which has already been recycled again with Ethan Hawke's 24 Hours To Live. Like we ever needed more generic written-by-Besson- style action movies, with or without women stars. Rather than impressive efforts, like a solid riff on John Wick with Charlize Theron's Atomic Blonde, or backdooring Theron's Furiosa into stealing the show in Mad Max: Fury Road, instead now filmmakers appear intent on revisiting ideas from Jason Statham's, Liam Neeson's, or indeed Luc Besson's post-2000 back catalogue with a women in the lead. It's somewhat confusing that it is seen as a positive that women now get to star in bad action movies that men would have made in the past, equally badly. Not female-led actioners, but utterly generic and distinctly average-at-best female-led actioners. There's this whole sub-genre that's materialised. Mary Elizabeth Winstead commits to this bloody and brutal neon-lit manga-style romp through the Yakuza underworld, which tries its damnedest to feel different even if it's ultimately pretty familiar.
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