![]() I want to see an Alien reboot with Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Ripley. This is the third pink-hued Netflix action jaunt counting Kate and Gunpowder Milkshake and I can safely say this by far the best of the three. This is a fairly run-of-the mill action yarn set in Tokyo, a frequent spot for Yakuza gangsta revenge flicks, but Winstead elevates the whole mediocre affair. She actually reminds me a lot of Sigourney Weaver as Ripley - smart, capable, no bullshit, not sexualized, and she does NOT fuck around. But Winstead is the lady a guy should want as their life partner. She's not the traditional model-esque action hero like Beckinsale, Milla Jovovich, Charlize Theron, or Angelina Jolie, but frankly, that makes her more attractive to me. ![]() She killed it in Fargo season three and 10 Cloverfield Lane and was a fine addition to Birds of Prey. Well, they radiated the WRONG bad-ass bitch. I saw this pink-themed movie poster thumbnail in my Netflix feed and thought to myself: "I already saw this over-caffeinated lackluster action flick with KATE Beckinsale - what gives?" But that's Mary Elizabeth Winstead in that thumbnail who I like even more than THAT Kate. Rating: R (Strong Bloody Violence|Language Throughout) Starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Woody Harrelson, and directed by Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, Kate follows a burned assassin's furious pursuit of one last self-appointed job. As her body swiftly deteriorates, Kate forms an unlikely bond with the teenage daughter of one of her past victims. But when she uncharacteristically blows an assignment targeting a member of the yakuza in Tokyo, she quickly discovers she's been poisoned, a brutally slow execution that gives her less than 24 hours to exact revenge on her killers. Whereas Extraction makes its way through slums and has its hero. Meticulous and preternaturally skilled, Kate is the perfect specimen of a finely tuned assassin at the height of her game. While I didn’t much care for Extraction, I have to admit that Kate works better if only because its tone isn’t so dark and gritty.
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