If you are a fan of action movies, then I am sure you all are going to enjoy watching Proud Mary.
You know when u got the movie from a friend yesterday, I had a second thought about deleting the movie because it kinda sounded like feminine stuff or perhaps a cliche movie which I'm not much into such kinda movies but watching this movie yesterday not only got me cracking up at some point; I actually meant crying but I couldn't wait to do a review on the movie.
And the main character who acted the Mary part is no other person other than (Taraji P. Henson) one of my best actors. I have actually watched many of her movies where she acted or bossy, fierce, funny, and all of the comedy-drama stuff but never have I watched her act the part of an assassin.
Proud Mary is a 2018 American action thriller film directed by Babak Najafi and released 19 January 2018 in (Nigeria)
THE PLOT
The movie starts with Mary, a professional assassin, killing her target in his apartment in Boston, before leaving, she notices her target had a son Danny (Jahi Di'allo Winston) who was in the bedroom playing a video game unaware of her presence and what was going on in the apartment. She left the apartment quietly with the picture of the young boy.
One year later, Danny was seen selling drugs for his master who was popularly known as Uncle. After selling the drugs, the young boy decided to eat something using the money on getting to the apartment, Danny was beaten by Uncle for taking a portion of his money to eat and so he ran out of the apartment into the street with blood running down his nose and tear in his eyes.
Unaware of someone watching and tracking his every move. Danny decided to rest on a bench by the roadside but a man steals his bag, making Danny chase him even though he was weak.
Danny felt tired, got out the gun he was with, and fired in the air startling the thief who drops down his bag and runs for his life. Danny faints and was luckily found by Mary who takes him home and nurses him until he is back to health.
Danny wakes up in Mary’s home, and she offered him food to eat before treating his wounds properly. While Danny was getting dressed, Mary noticed marks all over his body and asked him who did it which she was informed that the marks were gotten from Uncle’s abuse.
Mary confronts uncle with no intention of killing but to let him release the boy to be under her care, but due to circumstances and to save her life and that of the boy, she was forced to kill Uncle and his men.
She asks Danny about himself and also told Danny about herself and her family.
She faces a dilemma after she kills Uncle, to cover her tracks and avoid suspicious eyes, she decides to encourage her boss which leads to killing a few people who wanted to use the killing of uncle to their advantage.
On one of the days, Mary went out on a mission, Danny rummage through her things and finds about the guns she has stored inside her room, and while he was in the room watching a movie, Tom comes and finds him in the room.
Danny tells Mary who came looking for her and also asked her what she was doing with those guns. She tells Danny she is security.
An opposing crew retaliate which leads to the killing and injuring of a few of her colleagues and her boss (Benny). Benny finds out about Danny and invites him over on his wife's birthday anniversary where he was asked who he was but before then, Mary had told him to lie so nobody knows who he truly was.
On the birthday anniversary, Mary informs Benny of her decision to leave behind her criminal life and starts a new life but Benny tells her not to talk about it after they are back from their mission.
Before Mary left for the mission, she tells Danny to run with the money inside her room if anything happens to her. A fire battle was open and Mary was injured although she and Tom successfully kills Luka's men.
Mary returns home with the injury and tries to clean herself up but Danny finds her, Danny is shaken but the way Mary was, tries to help her. She finally tells Danny that Benny will never release her.
Danny goes to Benny's office with a gun and points it at him telling Benny to let go of Mary but Benny convinces him and gets the gun from him not after telling him that Mary was an assassin and the one who killed his father.
Mary comes in and tells Danny to run which he did. She begs Benny to let her go but Benny swears of never letting her go because she was his and also warns her to train Danny so he too could also become an assassin like her.
Mary opens gunfire and shot Benny twice in the head and went out to look for Danny. She begs him to forgive her for murdering his father. Tom finds out that Danny was the last person seen with his father, so he sends men to get him and brings him to him because he wasn't sure Danny could kill his father. While Mary was up in the room trying to pack a few of her things so they can both run, she gets the message of Tom having Danny, there he confirms his suspicion that Mary was behind the death of his father.
She goes to the warehouse to save Danny and single-handedly killed all Tom's men, freeing Danny and asking him to run while she confronts Tom. While she tries to walk away, Tom shoots at her and Mary shoots him in the chest, finishing him off with a bullet to the head.
Mary reunites with Danny, and both drive away to start a new life together away from all the havoc.
My Thoughts
I liked the whole setting of this movie and the characters most especially Mary and the little Danny. Although I 100% love this movie but I think my favourite is the part where Danny decides to confront Benny with a gun to let Mary go because he was afraid of losing her and staying alone. I guess he has grown on her even after he knew Mary was actually the one who killed his father.
I also liked the scene where Mary decides to start a new life after she took Danny, not only because she felt guilty but because she didn't want Danny to get into the life she was currently living.
This movie is one of the best movies I have watched about Taraji P. Henson and I must say she got me watching the movie over and over again.
You can as well try out the movie.