What’s It About
This pic follows Anna (Maggie Q) and Rembrandt (Keaton) – two of the world’s premier assassins who share a mysterious past from Vietnam. For years, they traversed the globe competing for high-profile contracts. But when Anna’s mentor Moody (Jackson) is murdered, she and Rembrandt must form an uneasy alliance and return to Vietnam to track down his killer.
MOVIESinMO REVIEW
The year is 1991, and Samuel L. Jackson plays yet another man with a gun. This time he’s a world-renown killer when he comes across a young girl hiding in a closet holding a gun. Frightened and traumatized, Moody (Jackson) takes her under his wing and raises her the only way he knows how – as an assassin. Fast forward to the present day, and Moody and his protégé Anna are a team no one wants to cross paths with. As the story unfolds, you find out what type of assassins they are, Anna’s tragic backstory, and Moody’s analysis of himself as a bad guy. The Protégé is an action flick with enough kills and choreographic fights to give it a little taste of realism while delivering plenty of one-liners determined not to take itself too seriously. It has a story that gives it a natural dramatic feel but with heart. So it’s not just a bunch fighting and kicking. You have genuine empathy for Moody and Anna as a team. When Rembrandt, Michael Keaton, made his appearance as one of the many bad guys, the film added another plot twist to an already crowded movie. Throughout the film, no less than three plots were going on at the same time. They are each great individually, but most are not needed for this movie to work. However, every last one of them was used to completion. Most of the unnecessary side plots can be forgiven because of the great performances by the main three actors, but The Protégé could have been so much better.
OUR RATING – A VENGEFUL 7.5
MEDIA
- Genre – Action
- Street date
- Digital – September 21st, 2021
- DVD/Blu-Ray – October 19th, 2021
- Video – 1080p
- Screen size – 2.39:1
- Sound – English: Dolby Atmos, English: Dolby TrueHD 7.1, French: Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1
- Subtitles – English SDH, Latin Spanish, Canadian French, Parisian French, Brazilian Portuguese
Extras
- “Scars of the Past: Making The Protégé” Featurette
- “Anna vs Rembrandt” Featurette
- Deleted Scene
- Theatrical Trailer