“ A serviceable Friday night choice that gets the job done just fine, enough to turn it into a hit for the streamer, but not quite enough to insist that anyone actually bothers to make time for it." " Kate has some decently fun action, despite certain trite directorial choices, with Mary Elizabeth Winstead serving as the movie's main bright spot." However, even these reviews found the movie lacking save for Entertainment Weekly’s positive writeup which preferred Kate’s po-faced self-seriousness to more outright silly action fare. Winstead’s performance managed to net some praise despite the general distaste that reviewers had for the project, and some reviewers argued that “passable” was good enough for a streaming service action movie release. The film really wants us to care about the title character, but fails to make us do so.”ĭespite these largely negative write-ups, some reviewers felt Kate had its redeeming features. “ The film could be forgiven for its tedious and predictable plot if it had some exhilarating action, but unfortunately, the fight scenes are rushed and leave Kate looking more like the Terminator than an actual human being whose body is gradually shutting down… Unfortunately, the story falls flat with tiresome tropes and faltering action scenes. Even the title character feels like an extension of star Mary Elizabeth Winstead’s other vengeful assassin character from Birds of Prey." (It is actually directed by a human, Cedric Nicolas-Troyan.) It’s a little bit Extraction, a little bit Gunpowder Milkshake.
" You’ve seen Kate before in other movies, which a cynic might suspect is exactly the idea: It feels like a title cooked up by the Netflix algorithm solely for the purpose of populating a Because You Watched row. And it’s somewhat obvious to Nicolas-Troyan that the audience doesn’t really care.”
“ The body count becomes numbing… The film tries to make the audience care about Kate’s possible redemption… it’s beyond obvious where this is going, that all this talk of family will sour into betrayal and eventually, a climax that postures as an emotional revelation.
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