She chooses to spend this time gunning for revenge, of course, a plan that is complicated not just by the sheer number of Yakuza henchmen she has to fight her way through but also Ani (Miku Patricia Martineau), a girl who is both the daughter of a recent target and the key to locating Kate’s unseen enemy. And, of course, she wants out of this life.īefore she can become the first female assassin to retire with no fuss whatsoever, there’s, well, some fuss, in Crank form: Kate is severely poisoned, and suddenly has just about 24 hours to live. Her Kate is a more straightforward creation: She fires precision kill shots from rooftops she has the obligatory male-mentor father-figure handler played by another name star, in this case Woody Harrelson she has easy-to-remember rules (in Kate’s case, don’t involve children at the scene of her crimes) that exist to be broken (guess who shows up at her opening hit). Kate can’t even claim the novelty of a movie star trying her hand at badassery Mary Elizabeth Winstead performed a comic variation on this type of character in last year’s Birds of Prey, where she played the DC Comics character Huntress as both bloodthirsty and socially awkward. If that sounds programmatic, well, yes, that’s how it can feel to watch them, even for fans of holding two guns whilst jumping through the air. Kate doesn’t seem to be in possession of first-mover advantage in the female-killer-versus-vulnerability subgenre in 2021 alone, its release trails The Protégé, Jolt and its Netflix stablemate Gunpowder Milkshake, clearly the result of some algorithmic analysis of the Wick box office and maybe also some Blonde streaming numbers. Killing dudes, getting revenge, revealing vulnerability by unexpectedly caring for a child, bathing in neon light, ripping off Crank…these daughters of John Wick and Atomic Blonde truly have it all. RIP.It’s been a busy year for that busiest of professions, the best-in-class lone female assassin. So maybe maybe Kate could have survived? Although considering her prognosis, it sounds like she had a high enough dose treatment would have been useless. Some patients may benefit from treatments that help the bone marrow recover its function.” Treatment focuses on “reducing and treating infections, maintaining hydration, and treating injuries and burns. Death is often caused from the bone marrow breaking down, resulting in infections, and internal bleeding. A major concern is damage to the bone marrow. The CDC says the lower the level of ARS, the better chance of recovery. Apparently, exposure at that level is like taking at least 18,000 x-rays. ARS results in skin burns, nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, and hair loss in addition to other not very fun symptoms. The EPA says high exposure to radiation can cause skin burns and acute radiation sickness (ARS), which is what Kate’s doctor at the beginning of the film says she has. Taken at extremely high dosage in a short amount of time (like Kate), it probably means death through radiation exposure. Like any other radioactive material, if taken at significant dosage over a long period of time, there’s an increased risk of cancer. Keep scrolling to find out what Polonium-204 really is, and if there’s even a cure. But still, there’s not much information to go off of. There are other hints to what the poison throughout the film, like a discarded radiation outfit in the hospital and Kate’s increasingly reddening skin. Viewers see that Kate received the dose through glasses of wine the night before. Seeing as most people don’t come across Polonium-204 every day, the poison is sure to raise a few eyebrows. To stave off the effects of the poison, she takes stimulants (five to be exact) to keep going through the night. Early on in the film, Kate is secretly given a deadly dose of polonium-204, and as a doctor explains, she only has one night to settle her affairs. During Kate’s odyssey, she also picks up Ani (Miki Martneau), a young girl who she believes can get her to her killer.īut before the gunslinging, intense fight scenes, and harrowing path to redemption, there’s the poisoning. This time, the incredibly talented Mary Elizabeth Winstead stars as Kate, alongside her mentor Varrick (played by Woody Harrelson). Kate is the streaming service’s most recent woman-led action film, hot on the heels of the star-studded Gunpowder Milkshake, starring Karen Gillan, Paul Giamatti, Lena Heady, Angela Bassett, Michelle Yeoh and others. It turns out, getting revenge isn’t as easy as she thinks. Her goal: to kill the person responsible. Imagine an unstoppable assassin who realizes she’s been poisoned and only has 24 hours to live. Netflix’s new action film Kate has an adrenaline-pumping premise.
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