A fun, fast-paced actioner

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 28, 2021

Director Cedric Nicolas-Troyan makes great use of the Japanese setting and of newcomer Miku Patricia Martineau, who becomes Kate's unlikely local sidekick, but he might have done more with Woody Harrelson.

| Sep 17, 2021

Kate gestures at being different, something fresh and subversive, but at the end of the day, it's just reheating old clichés.

| Sep 15, 2021

Look, we get it, people are looking for new stuff to watch, mindless escapism included. Still, in terms of any sort of inspiration or originality, "Kate," the movie, is every bit as D.O.A. as Kate, the character.

| Sep 14, 2021

The violence isn't quite ultra, but at least it adds some excitement to the otherwise lackluster script. Mary Elizabeth Winstead is a legit action star wasted by Netflix's Kate.

| Original Score: 60/100 | Sep 11, 2021

Its tired story and flat characterisations mean you're just counting minutes until the next shoot-out or sword fight.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 11, 2021

This is a conventional action thriller with some worthy touches but hardly enough to make it stand out.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 10, 2021

Mary Elizabeth Winstead has a a really incredible presence... and this movie is stylish, but it's really not anything we haven't seen before. What sets it apart is that it is incredibly, brutally violent.

| Sep 10, 2021

Umair Aleem's script is so paint-by-numbers familiar that it leaves you wishing you'd watched one of the better movies it's ripping off.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 10, 2021

If you're signing up for an assassin revenge movie with Winstead entertainingly kicking ass, you're going to get one.

| Sep 10, 2021

Lizard-brain satisfying...

| Original Score: B | Sep 10, 2021

At this point "Kate" feels like a routine exercise in the overworked assassin genre. Been there, killed that.

| Original Score: C | Sep 10, 2021

Delivers just enough violence and panache to qualify for a late-night Netflix viewing.

| Sep 10, 2021

The lulls here are far more frequent, and only a fraction of the same care has been put into imagining the details of a heightened, dreamlike world.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 9, 2021

You're not going to get much in the way of original plot, but what you WILL get is a grindhouse of a good time with some bleak and wickedly sharp humor, screen-popping visuals and some pretty great fight choreography.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 9, 2021

The movie presents an eye-catching fantasy of a candy-colored Japanese underworld. But the exoticism feels as cheap as a whiff of a green tea and musk cologne called Tokyo wafting over a department store counter.

| Sep 9, 2021

A to-the-point two-hour slab of pulp that slickly glides above a very low bar.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 9, 2021

Winstead sells it.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 9, 2021

It telecasts precisely how Kate's story will play out from the outset and never rises above its influences, but at least Nicolas-Troyan and the cast commit to bringing the fun while it lasts.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 6, 2021

Kate will leave you wishing that its narrative possessed the same attention to detail as its elaborately violent action set pieces.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 5, 2021