movie review - Kate
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-seven years and one million words
This is an action pic about an assassin who's been tasked with hitting a yakuza target. But she's also been poisoned and has only a short time to live. It's an interesting premise but the execution isn't quite there. There are a few too many things that are left for us to guess, and some build-up about a connection between the assassin and the crime family she's targeting is left dangling in front of us in the final scene. Did it exist or not? We're not shown the photo the assassin is given. Madenning. Or maybe I'm stupid.
Anyway, it turns out that we have a connection to the young lady that co-stars in this thing. She's the daughter of an acquaintance of my wife, a Japanese woman that lives in Toronto.
Not recommended.