Predictably, there are quite a few villains in this story, to keep the action coming in and to remind fans of the actress’ epochal run with Nikita.Īs the glossy pack of clichés plays out its runtime of less than 110 minutes, you can’t but be surprised noting the director’s name in the credits. The cat-and-mouse game that Anna and the villains engage in is wholly meant to highlight Maggie Q’s billing as an action star. Quite amusing how he chooses to name Maggie Q’s character Anna - that was the name of Besson’s last-released film in 2019 starring Russian supermodel Sasha Luss as the titular action hero). (Incidentally, Campbell’s Besson hangover doesn’t end with content and execution. The problem with The Protégé is the film’s director Martin Campbell misses out on the insane edge Besson rendered to violence, as well as the latter’s ability to provide the story with a solid emotional core. You could, of course, note that Nikita itself was French maverick Luc Besson’s remake of his own action gem of 1990, La Femme Nikita, and hence not entirely original work. The outcome is jaded, and Q’s latest could seem like a discarded draft for a new season of the series that never did take off. Q, whose fame as a global action star continues to rest on the show, revisits the template with The Protégé, a film that blindly echoes the Nikita plot about an orphan kid being shaped into a brutal assassin, who eventually becomes the archetypal avenging angel. Once upon a time, about a decade ago, action star Maggie Q scored big with the TV series Nikita.
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