This is a Netflix effort to produce a female version of the traditional action movie, so women fill the roles of director (New Zealander Niki Caro), writer (African-American Misha Green), star (dancer, singer and actress Jennifer Lopez as a retired assassin and the unnamed Mother) and support (Mexican-born Lucy Paez as the Mother’s daughter Zoe and reason for much of the mayhem). It’s a competent, but unoriginal, work and Lopez was clearly reluctant to shed her locks to acquire a grittier look.
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