On more than one occasion, the film tells us they’re best friends. He fulfills the fundamental role of Kate’s mentor and handler. The third player here in Netflix’s Kate is Woody Harrelson as Varrick.
Kate is a hardened assassin who doesn’t mind using the kid as bait because she knows she can protect her, and Ani is a spoiled child whose name alone grants her certain freedoms from the wrath of the yakuza-until it doesn’t. It’s like a buddy cop comedy-two people from vastly different worlds coming together with the same goal. Kate and Ani are not the dynamic duo I envisioned when I tuned into this movie. Ani isn’t exactly easy to deal with (she’s loud, a little obnoxious, and dangerously naive), but she’s got a lot of spunk, and she adapts to her new situation fairly quickly. Not only is she at the center of everything that’s happening, but she’s also the one person Kate can’t say no to. This little girl is easily the highlight of the film for a multitude of reasons. Those principles begin and end with Ani, played by Miku Patricia Martineau. And that’s all you really need to understand that she’s a good person at her core. But it’s her principles that give her an ounce of humanity. The irony here is that she’s a hard, cold person most of the time. But in that time, you come to love and respect her. We’re not with Kate for long-a mere twenty-four hours, in fact.
The events in the film are merely vehicles through which the director, Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, and the script’s writer, Umair Aleem, build a portrait of the enigmatic character simply named Kate. The plot itself is not spectacularly different from its predecessors-talented assassin, grizzled mentor, job gone wrong, secrets revealed, revenge enacted-but part of me thinks that’s the point. In a race against time, she battles it out against the yakuza to figure out who wants her dead and why. Kate is set in Japan, and the premise is fairly straight-forward-on Kate’s last hit, the poison coursing through her veins forces her to miss her shot. Netflix’s Kate is an action-thriller starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Woody Harrelson.
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