Movie Review: Gunpowder Milkshake

Movie Review: Gunpowder Milkshake

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The movie Gunpowder Milkshake asks the question “would a high body count action movie work with an all female cast?”

As a young girl Sam (Karen Gillan) sits at a diner booth doing as her mother Scarlet (Lena Headey) says. She closes her eyes. That way she doesn’t see her mother leap up from the milkshake they’d been sharing, expertly kill a group of thugs and flee the room never to be seen again.

Years on we find Sam working as a cool assassin for hire. The body count quickly runs into double figures as she disposes of all who come before her. Think Killing Eve meets Quentin Tarantino, kind of.

Gunpowder Milkshake proves that an all female cast can make an action movie with a high and violent body count. The action work is impressive and the set designs are gorgeous.

Sadly the movie also proves that it takes more than an endless series of action sequences to make a good action movie. It also has to have a decent story.

In this instance the movie is appropriately summed up by the marketing blurb, “three generations of women fight back against those who have taken everything from them.” There’s a nod to the “me too” movement, with Paul Giamatti appearing as Nathan, Sam’s handler and father figure, who turns against her like all the other powerful men in her life.

The movie shows how hard it is to make cool dialogue that doesn’t sound forced and what a great job Jodie Comer did as the detached psychopath in Killing Eve.

Worth a look if you’re really into action.

Rating 5/10

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