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Gunpowder Milkshake
2021 114 min France, Germany, United States of America R 18+
★6.1
Action, Crime, Thriller
Director: Navot Papushado
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Description
To protect an 8-year-old girl, a dangerous assassin reunites with her mother and her lethal associates to take down a ruthless crime syndicate and its army of henchmen.
Budget:
$30M
Worldwide:
$1.02M
Starring
Karen Gillan
Actor
Lena Headey
Actor
Carla Gugino
Actor
Awards
5 nominations total
Key opinion
Gunpowder Milkshake is a polarizing exercise in style over substance that divides audiences on the quality of its action choreography and narrative depth. While many viewers appreciate its vibrant, neon-soaked aesthetic and charismatic female-led cast, others criticize the film for being a derivative and hollow imitation of superior genre entries like John Wick.
| Production | The film utilizes a highly polished, neon-drenched visual aesthetic that successfully evokes a comic-book atmosphere. | |
| Screenplay | The script is widely viewed as derivative and thin, relying on trite revenge tropes that fail to provide meaningful character development. | |
| Direction | Opinions on the action sequences are sharply divided; supporters praise the inventive, stylized fight choreography, while detractors argue the combat is poorly staged, amateurish, and lacks the fluid realism of its genre peers. | |
| Acting | Karen Gillan's performance is viewed by many as a competent anchor that makes a somewhat bland protagonist watchable, though some critics felt the overall cast was underutilized or miscast. | |
| Score | The musical choices are inconsistent, with some viewers finding the soundtrack adds to the film's vibrant energy, while others feel it is frequently mismatched and out of place during key scenes. |