Kate (2021)

6.3R106 minDirector: Cedric Nicolas-Troyan

2021 film by Cedric Nicolas-Troyan

Kate is a 2021 American action thriller film directed by Cedric Nicolas-Troyan and written by Umair Aleem. The film stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Miku Martineau, Woody Harrelson, Tadanobu Asano, Michiel Huisman, Miyavi, and Jun Kunimura. The film follows Kate (Winstead), an assassin, whose mentor and handler (Harrelson) assigns her to kill a high-ranking yakuza boss. During Kate's final mission, she finds out that she has been poisoned and has at most a day to live, so she uses her last hours to get revenge and find out who set her up.

The film was released on September 10, 2021, by Netflix and received mixed reviews from critics, who praised Winstead's performance but found the film "disappointingly derivative of numerous other female assassin films".

Plot summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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What is Kate about?
Kate (2021) — Meticulous and preternaturally skilled, Kate is the perfect specimen of a finely tuned assassin at the height of her game. But when she uncharacteristically blows an assignment targeting a member of the yakuza in Tokyo, she quickly discovers she's been poisoned, a brutally slow e
Is Kate based on a true story?
See the production background and source material details on the official Wikipedia article.
Is Kate scary?
Content rating: R. See the reviews tab for parental guidance and tone notes.
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