CANARY BLACK

Kate Beckinsale stars as Avery Graves, an international spy who, to her husband David (Rupert Friend), has a boring day job as a risk analyst. However, when David is kidnapped, Avery is forced to betray her country by stealing canary black, a blackmail list the government has compiled to keep foreign leaders in check from doing anything the US government doesn't want them doing. On the run from her own agency and with little time, Avery must make the impossible possible in order to save David's life. Kate Beckinsale kicking ass and taking names? Yeah, that's what got me to give this a try as Kate is a bad ass action star! Unfortunately, while this film started out interestingly enough, it soon became uninteresting fairly quickly. Beckinsale is believable as Avery but isn't given much to work with here with such a lackluster script. There's a reveal at the end of the film that was predictable very early on as the cast is small so how many people could it be? This had some moments with some of the action scenes featuring Beckinsale but overall, a disappointment (especially since initially it was better than I was expecting). 5.5/10