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- 2021
- R
- Netflix
- 1 h 54 m
- 2021
- R
- Netflix
- 1 h 54 m
Summary Sam (Karen Gillan) was only 12 years old when her mother Scarlet (Lena Headey), an elite assassin, was forced to abandon her. Sam was raised by The Firm, the ruthless crime syndicate her mother worked for. Now, 15 years later, Sam has followed in her mother’s footsteps and grown into a fierce hit-woman. She uses her “talents” to clean up...
Directed By: Navot Papushado
Written By: Ehud Lavski, Navot Papushado
- 2021
- R
- Netflix
- 1 h 54 m
- 2021
- R
- Netflix
- 1 h 54 m
Gunpowder Milkshake
47
4.3
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Summary Sam (Karen Gillan) was only 12 years old when her mother Scarlet (Lena Headey), an elite assassin, was forced to abandon her. Sam was raised by The Firm, the ruthless crime syndicate her mother worked for. Now, 15 years later, Sam has followed in her mother’s footsteps and grown into a fierce hit-woman. She uses her “talents” to clean up...
Directed By: Navot Papushado
Written By: Ehud Lavski, Navot Papushado
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 28 Critic Reviews
47
32% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
50% Mixed
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
18% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 28 Critic Reviews
47
32% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
50% Mixed
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
18% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
Please leave all logic and reality at the door as you settle in for a violent slice of Netflix original movie entertainment featuring an outstanding cast of first-rate actors clearly having a great time shooting up the joint.
The film’s intermittent delights are momentarily satisfying, but then numbness sets in, like the brain freeze that blooms after you slurp on the film’s titular ice-cream treat.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 103 User Ratings
4.3
24% Positive
25 Ratings
25 Ratings
33% Mixed
34 Ratings
34 Ratings
43% Negative
44 Ratings
44 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 103 User Ratings
4.3
24% Positive
25 Ratings
25 Ratings
33% Mixed
34 Ratings
34 Ratings
43% Negative
44 Ratings
44 Ratings
Guess who doesn’t like this movie? I’ll give you a hint, it’s the same trash that gave the monumentally stupid and awful “Run Hide Fight” glowing reviews. And great job of completely giving up on policing/moderation, MetaCritic! We now get to see comments filled with anti-semitism, racism, and sexism by mouth-breather scum all over the place.
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Gunpowder Milkshake was awesome. The fight scenes were badass, the fight choreography was outstanding. The performances from Karen Gillan, Lena Headey, Michelle Yeoh, Carla Gugino, Angela Bassett, and Chloe Coleman were exceptional, to me they are one of the best acting ensembles I've ever seen. The costumes were excellent especially ones wore by Carla Gugino, Michelle Yeoh, Angela Bassett, Karen Gillan, and Lena Headey. The makeup and hairstyling was superb especially on Carla Gugino, Angela Bassett, Michelle Yeoh, and Lena Headey. This was an A+ movie to me.
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Men have been gorging on righteous, blood-splattering pulp action rides like this one for decades, and if women are now looking for the equivalent, Gunpowder Milkshake fits the bill. Its message is that there are a lot of Bills to kill.
Headey’s in her element. Gillan is capable. But Papushado’s excesses hold them back from performing at their best.
Tiresome stuff.
This is regurgitated shoot-’em-up nothingness fetishistically dressed in the cosplay of equality. The women are not characters to care about, but props to kill and be killed.
The film’s humorlessness is off-putting; it is slick to the point of lacking texture. But the underlying problem is more fundamental. Gunpowder Milkshake is led by someone without the star power to carry it, surrounded as she might be by actresses far more interesting.
A decent action movie: Good actors in an interesting setting with colourful set pieces but with flat characters and subpar dialogue.
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The story and characters are unfortunately very bare bone. It doesn't help that some of the action is incredibly goofy and has fights that rely on the men being idiots.
However, the action is very stylistic, with some nice use of blood and gore. Plus the score composed by Frank Ilfman is very good and there is some great use of music within the film. The cast do a pretty good job as well. The movie is enjoyable if all you want to see is someone get stabbed or shot.
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[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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A 99 cent version of John Wick. It's a classic case of style over substance - it's characters are flat, tries too hard to be cool, the dialogue is atrocious, the story is weak. You would bank on a movie like this to have great action but it doesn't; the fight scenes are poorly choreographed and lack intensity. Karen Gillan feels miscast - her stone-faced flat performance required an intensity that she didn't bring.
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Production Company
StudioCanal,
The Picture Company,
Studio Babelsberg
Release Date Jul 14, 2021
Duration 1 h 54 m
Rating R
Awards
Critics Choice Super Awards
• 2 Nominations
Women Film Critics Circle Awards
• 1 Nomination
International Film Music Critics Award (IFMCA)
• 1 Nomination
