The Protégé

The Protégé (2021) is a crime thriller from Martin Campbell, ready to watch online on iFILM. In 1991 a hitman named Moody spares a girl who survived a Vietnam massacre and raises her in his trade. Three decades on, she is the best contract killer alive.

Anna (Maggie Q) lives two lives. By day she runs a rare bookshop in London. Under contract she works clean and cold across the globe. Moody (Samuel L. Jackson) is the closest thing she has to a father. When gunmen cut him down, Anna hunts whoever ordered it. Standing in her way is Rembrandt (Michael Keaton), a charming, lethal fixer whose cat-and-mouse with her keeps tipping into real bullets.

Campbell, the director behind Casino Royale, shoots this lean and brutal, but the real draw is the spark between Q and Keaton, which turns a straight revenge plot into a duel of equals. Richard Wenk wrote the script. It lands for anyone who likes a stylish spy-flavored actioner built around a woman. Stream The Protégé (2021) online on iFILM.