KATE

KATE finds Mary Elizabeth Winstead as a retiring assassin, who during her final job, is poisoned and has 24 hours left to live. Set in Japan, Winstead begins a brief but very deadly journey of revenge against one of the most powerful Yakuza clans in the land in order to kill the person(s) responsible for her impending death. I'm really enjoying Mary Elizabeth stretching her chops as an action star and hope she continues as she kicks major ass in the film (particularly in her fight sequence in a Japanese restaurant that would make Quentin Tarantino proud). Woody Harrelson plays her mentor, Varrick. Harrelson always demands your attention with his powerful performances but here, he's somewhat wasted and used as filler as the character is very two dimensional, without much to work with. A fun and bloody journey to take a chance on Netflix. 6/10