WHAT’S IT ABOUT
When a dangerous criminal from her past breaks out of prison, a former CIA agent must tap back into her lethal skills to protect her family.
MOVIESinMO REVIEW
Chris Stokes and Marques Houston have combined to make almost a movie a month on Tubi. From You’re Not Alone, in which the hero watches a masked and gloved killer murder his wife and then come back for his daughter, to the man-crush gone bad in The Ex Obsession and three of The Stepmother films, they’ve laid claim to being the most prolific team making Tubi Originals. Angela is a CIA agent who loses her husband, Jason (Chris Moss), to what she thinks is a heart attack. As she raises her son Jason Jr. (Jered Cheatham at age 12, King Cheatham at age 7) with the spiritual support of her agency partner Byron (Lance Gross, the Sleepy Hollow TV show), she finally decides to leave the life behind. That is until one of her most challenging cases comes back. Dmitri Merciano (Charlie Weber), the man who killed her husband and many of her fellow agents, nearly murdered her when he discovered that she had been working undercover to get him. Like so many Tubi Originals, this starts in the middle of the story with Bob’s Coffee Shop blowing up and nearly killing Angela. Although this has several big explosions, much larger than you’d expect for the usual Tubi film, the special effects team could have used more of the overall budget for a more flawless cinematic appearance and feel. That explosion would be the second time the main bad guy kills someone she loves, as a bomb wipes out Byron the very day he decides to tell Angela how much he loves her. The bad guys also kill her mother, Carolyn (Janet Hubert, the first Aunt Viv from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air), but not before she goes old Lady Arnold on several of them before being killed by a female assassin with a katana. That said, this movie is pretty fun, and it’s nice to see people of color and women represented throughout as total badasses, with good and evil characters included. There’s also a lot of teamwork between the agents, like a retiring agent named Lisette (Zulay Henao) and Vivian (Annie Ilonzeh), one of Angela’s best friends in the agency who gets caught up in the war between our heroine and her arch enemy. Plus, Malik Yoba from New York Undercover is the leader of the good guys.
OUR RATING – A BELOW BUDGET 5