“Protégé”–Who’s the Student? Who’s the Teacher?
The Protege (2021) is a throwback to the 90s action thrillers with one exception: a badass, beautiful assassin in the Nikita genre. (Maggie Q, who has played Nikita in a television series.)
Anna Dutton (Maggie Q) is rescued as a little girl from the savagery of the Vietnam War by the legendary assassin Moody (Samuel Jackson). Raised by him as her surrogate father, she is now an antiquity book store owner in London. Anna–in her secret life– is a fierce, highly skilled assassin who can find people who are hard to find–just as...