Top level CIA agent Avery Graves is blackmailed by terrorists into betraying her own country to save her kidnapped husband. Cut off from her team, she turns to her underworld contacts to survive and help locate the coveted intelligence that the kidnappers want.
Kate Beckinsale
Avery Graves
Rupert Friend
David Brooks
Saffron Burrows
Elizabeth Mills
Ray Stevenson
Jarvis Hedlund
Goran Kostić
Breznov
Ben Miles
DCIA Nathan Evans
Jaz Hutchins
Agent Maxfield
Romina Tonković
Sorina
Ana Cilas
Abby
Emma Gojković
Evans Assistant
Igor Pečenjev
Hostage Agent
Andrei Lenart
Niklaus
Luka Alagić
Laszlo Stoica
Director
Pierre Morel
Writer
Matthew Kennedy
November 8, 2024
4
I can't find much to recommend in Canary Black.
Following the by now well known DEI formula this is another girl boss flick that see's out heroine take on athletic men, twice her size and defeat them (must be the biology defying power of equity). That however, is not this flicks only shortcoming.
Its loaded down with absurd contrivances. Batting a triggered mines warhead out a window like a softball, without any harm befalling our pristine heroine. Add to that, fighting in high heels against opponents who, weirdly, typically attack one at a time and odd little too convenient things, such as having a knife strategically placed in a car to cut plastic ties (plastic hand cuff style restraints).
Acting is fine. I don't mind Kate Beckinsale and I have a lot of time for Ray Stevenson (who has sadly passed) and was fantastic in the series, Rome.
In summary, Canary Black operates on a sliding scale from basic to downright ridiculous, with little in between.