![]() And Western fetishization of the yakuza as businessmen with samurai swords is getting pretty uninspired as well. The film’s depiction of Japanese culture as insularly obsessed with “honor” and dismissive of outsiders isn’t particularly fresh, either. It isn’t - not for Netflix, immediately following Gunpowder Milkshake, and not for other studios, with The Protégé and Jolt piling up on each other’s stiletto-clad footsteps over the past few months. Maybe taking on that kind of iconic role could keep Winstead from tiresome fare like Netflix’s action movie Kate.Īnother unimaginative woman-led action flick written and directed by men who telegraph their twists and lean on flashbacks instead of bothering to write character development, Kate mistakes “women can kill just as well as men!” for some sort of new idea. Whether she plays Amanda Ripley, Ellen’s canonical daughter, or a clone of Ellen herself (a narrative possibility imagined by 1997’s Joss Whedon-written Alien Resurrection), Winstead should be unleashed against the Weyland-Yutani Corporation so everyone can watch the sparks fly. the World, Winstead has grown into a self-assured actress whose physical confidence, sardonic line deliveries, and shaggy chopped ’do evoke Weaver’s sci-fi icon. Since her breakthrough in Scott Pilgrim vs. Whoever makes the next Alien sequel or spinoff should consider casting Mary Elizabeth Winstead as the successor of Sigourney Weaver’s character, Ellen Ripley.
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