Netflix continues its new-found love for action movies with a new trailer for the upcoming revenge thriller,Kate. While not much footage from the movie has been revealed until now, the marketing so far has already had action movie fans talking, with many comparing lead star Mary Elizabeth Winstead to other female action movie icons such as Ripley and Sarah Connor. Comparisons which the new trailer certainly helps cement.
Katestars Mary Elizabeth Winstead as the titular character, Kate, an assassin whose world is thrown into disarray when she discovers she has just hours left to live. After finding out that she has been irreversibly poisoned, the ruthless criminal operative known as Kate hasless than 24 hours to exact revengeon her enemies and in the process forms an unexpected bond with the daughter of one of her past victims. With such a short space of time to enact her vengeance,Katepromises to be a non-stop action outing, packing in all the fist-fights and shoot-outs you could possibly want.
Directed byThe Huntsman: Winter’s War’sCedric Nicolas-Troyan and written by Umair Aleem,Katestars the likes of Woody Harrelson, Michiel Huisman, Tadanobu Asano, Jun Kunimura, Miyavi, Miku Martineau, and Kazuya Tanabe alongside Mary Elizabeth Winstead, and sounds like another example of the perfect, action-packed streaming escape that Netflix has been specializing in lately.
“Kate isa ruthless assassinwho is on a job in Tokyo, and she gets poisoned,” Winstead revealed about her character in a recent interview. “She finds out she has 24 hours to live before the poison kills her, so she sets out on a mission to find out who poisoned her and kill them before she dies. Along the way, she forges this bond with this teenage girl named Ani (Miku Martineau), and they end up taking on this mission together. It’s a heartfelt, brutal, assassin story!”
Mary Elizabeth Winstead isno stranger to the action movie genre, having starred in the likes of Quentin Tarantino’sDeath Proof, Die HardsequelLive Free or Die Hardalongside Bruce Willis, Edgar Wright’sScott Pilgrim vs. the World, and 2019’sGemini Man, which saw her take on an assassin clone of Will Smith. Winstead has also now added her name to the comic book movie genre, joining the DC universe as Helena Bertinelli AKA The Huntress, an orphaned vigilante and member of theBirds of Preyalongside Harley Quinn and Black Canary.
Mary Elizabeth Winsteadmay hit hard inKate, but it is just one of a slew of action outings set to premiere on the streaming giant in the near future following the likes ofExtraction, The Old Guard, and the zombie heist flickArmy of the Dead, all of which are due to receive sequels. Jason Momoa will soon lead his own revenge mission in the upcomingSweet Girl, which finds theAquamanstar as an everyman haunted by the death who must protect his daughter after attempting his own brand of vengeance. Netflix will also debutRed Noticestarring Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot,Beckettstarring John David Washington and Alicia Vikander, and recently unleashed Jean-Claude Van Damme’s comeback inThe Last Mercenary.
Kateis scheduled to be released on August 05, 2025, byNetflix, and was recently given an R-rating thanks to some “strong bloody violence and language throughout.” Sounds perfect.
