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I was adequately entertained by 'The Protége', and it is a movie well-worth watching if you like action crime thrillers.

There is a good amount of action and fight scenes throughout the course of 'The Protége', which definitely help bring the movie up and into a good pacing. And it certainly was nice to have the likes of Michael Keaton and Samuel L. And she was nicely cast for 'The Protége', I will say that much. And truth be told, of course I had to watch 'The Protége' given the fact that Maggie Q was starring in it, as she tends to make some pretty decent action movies. And yeah, that was actually a good thing about the movie, because it is a munch-on-the-popcorn-and-enjoy-the-action kind of movie. The storyline is easily followed and doesn't really require all that much in the intellectual department, so you just switch off the old gray and lean back and enjoy the movie. Sure, the storyline and plot may have been predictable and somewhat generic, but who cares? It made for good wholesome entertainment. This was a good old fashioned action crime thriller, for better or worse. And I must say that I am glad that I opted to watch the movie, because I happened to enjoy the movie. Regardless of how it was playing out, then I would watch it, as the movie had a rather nice cast ensemble. So it was with a bit of doubt that I sat down to watch 'The Protége'. Initially I was thrilled about getting to sit down to watch 'The Protége' from writer Richard Wenk and director Martin Campbell, but someone had mentioned that the movie wasn't really all that great. Although he gives the movie some class, you get the feeling he is slumming it after a career boost from movies such as Birdman and Spotlight. Keaton makes the most of the action scenes which is remarkable given his age. Samuel L Jackson can do this in his sleep. The Protégé is a slickly action thriller let down by a poor plot which holds little surprises. Along the way Ann has several showdowns with the enigmatic Rembrandt who is a fixer for a shady billionaire philanthropist who once faked his own death. The finale ends up in Vietnam where Anna's traumatic past is revealed. Soon people she knows have been killed and Anna goes after the baddies for revenge. One day a man called Rembrandt (Michael Keaton) walks into her shop and Anna's world changes. She also uses a vintage bookshop in London as a front. Moody has trained Anna to be a contract killer. Anna (Maggie Q) was taken in by an assassin called Moody (Samuel L Jackson) who found her as a child in Vietnam. The Protégé has plenty of raw action, some of the violence is hard edged. Nowadays Campbell is a veteran relegated to making B movies. He was then given the task to reboot the James Bond franchise twice.

Martin Campbell directed the landmark BBC thriller Edge of Darkness in 1985.

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