The two of them have a meet-cute, bantering back and forth over quarter-million dollar books as potential gifts for loved ones. While waiting for information to come back, Anna is attending to her day job as a rare books dealer when in walks Michael Rembrandt (Michael Keaton). While there, Moody asks Anna to help him find someone and the main plot of the film kicks off. After the opening flashback scene, the film establishes the lethality of the duo as they complete a contract and their close friendship as they banter about the job and, later, celebrate Moody’s seventieth birthday. Moody took her back to London and taught her everything he knows about being an assassin and the two embark on a very successful partnership. The two of them are an unlikely pair, Moody discovering Anna when she was just a young girl, hiding in a closet in her home in Vietnam after killing her parents’ murderers. I’ll aim to keep them minimal.)Īnna (Maggie Q) is an accomplished assassin and partner/apprentice to Moody (Samuel L. The list goes on and on and on and we come to the latest assassin flick, The Protege. They even tried to make Angelina Jolie an assassin star and you probably can’t even name the assassin movies she was in (at least one of them wasn’t atrocious). Liam Neeson movies are very Liam Neeson-y. The James Bond movies tend to be good, bad, good, bad, etc. The Hitman and its sequel ( Agent 47) were meh and gahhh. The first three Bourne movies were pretty solid, but the last two were not. Leon: The Professional is pretty much the gold standard. Is it just me or do assassin movies seem to be really hit or miss? Yep, an assassin pun right of the gates.
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