Well, I think I know what happened to the
daughter that Geena Davis had in The Long Kiss Goodnight (one of my faves).
Just like her mom, she grew up to be a professional assassin. Like mom, like
daughter. Geena Davis plays the mother of Ava (Jessica Chastain), an employee
of a secret organization that kills people. She is the best and displays
these skills on numerous occasions. In this field of work though you don't
retire with a gold watch. Her direct boss, John Malkovitch, loves her like
a daughter but others in the organization (Colin Farrell) and his daughter
(Diana Silvers) thinks she is slipping. Ava asks her targets why she has
been sent to kill them - they usually are not sure - so she kills them anyway
- but it is a sign of weakness.
Farrell decides her time is up and no gold watch. At the same time, her ex-boyfriend
(Common) is deeply in hock to a gambling organization run by Toni (John Chen!)
and she has to fix that. It is going to be a very busy night. Very standard
hit person plot - at some point the killing begins to get to you and in the
end the people who hire you always come after you. The film throws in some
family drama that feels like slogging through a mud field - but its the action
scenes that sell the film. A couple brutal fights and a good shootout keep
the film afloat and I am never one to diss a female assassin film. There
is always room for more. I was mainly disappointed that Geena didn't pull
out a gun and start shooting.
