2021 action film written and directed by Navot Papushado.
Fifteen years after being abandoned by her mother when she was just a child and left under the protection and care of her mother’s former boss in a hitman company called The Firm, young Sam has followed the steps of her mother and has become an assassin who has been assigned the mission of murdering the man who stole money from The Firm, but when Sam discovers that he took the money to pay the kidnappers of his young daughter, she feels compassion and decides to put her hands in the fire for the girl and take the money to save her. When Nathan knows that Sam will put the money in danger, he sends assassins to stop her.
Gunpowder Milkshake is a film with a very denoted feminist narrative, with action sequences in which the sides in combat are always represented in the equation: women against men, and the company they work for takes the representative place of patriarchy, however, it is also a fast-paced film, with one foot on the gas pedal it moves from one point to the next with action scenes that you can’t take seriously, and that are fun to watch.
Everything in the film takes place in a relatively absurd atmosphere, like saying “don’t take what you are seeing seriously”, in which the public places such as hospitals have spaces reserved for depositing weapons, armories with libraries appearance that hide weapons in books that apparently are not read, and diners that operate as a neutral zone.
The best thing about the film is probably its production design, costumes and a short scene in a bowling alley, because it has a visually attractive light effect, and also a charismatic cast composed by Karen Gillan, Lena Headey, Chloe Coleman, Carla Gugino, Michelle Yeoh, Angela Bassett and Paul Giamatti.
With a running time of one hour and fifty-four minutes the film had a budget of thirty million dollars and with a limited and selective release internationally has earned just over one million dollars, while it became the most watched film the week of its release on Netflix, so a sequel is coming.
The truth is that it is a film that can be entertaining or irritating depending on how emotionally involved you are with the political discussion, but in any case it serves purely as entertainment.
Let me know in the comments what you think of the film, and if you haven’t seen it yet, let me know if you’d be interested in seeing it.
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