Proud Mary [2018) Full HD Movie FREE Download
Whenever “Proud Mary”
falters, the extremely talented Henson picks the film up and carries it on her
capable shoulders like a wounded comrade. Just watching her from scene to scene
is pure joy. Henson is an actress whose performances manifest themselves in her
entire body. Here, she plays a tough hitwoman whose unexpected maternal
instinct comes with a heaping side order of guilt. These conflicting feelings
seem to emanate from her soul. Watch how she temporarily melts in the arms of a
former lover before coming to her senses, or how she holds her head when she
tells her orphaned young ward Danny (Jahi Di'Allo Winston) what to do in case
of her demise. Or how she nonchalantly blows people away with the coolness of
Schwarzenegger or Stallone. Her parental arguments with Danny are also
delivered with expert comic timing and she’s savvy enough to know when to let
Winston steal the scene. One senses this was a passion project of hers because
she’s fully committed even when the film lets her down.
Full disclosure: I slightly feel bad for dodging Proud Mary for its Rambo element while for The Commuter, Liam Neeson’s
character taking about of punches, being shot at, and more wasn’t giving a gig.
However, the main difference is Taraji P. Henson. Now, don’t get me wrong, the
main reason I saw this film was Taraji P. Henson, but she also is sort of the
problem.
Proud Mary starts going downhill slowly during an opening
credits sequence that hints at a fun time that director Babak Najafi (London
Has Fallen), and the film’s three credited screenwriters almost never deliver.
It’s a poorly paced attempt to introduce the film with a retro bent, with
no-nonsense mobster assassin Mary (Henson) dressing up and arming herself
before heading out to kill an anonymous mark. The Temptations’ Papa Was a
Rollin’ Stone blares. But the mood is ruined by sloppy direction and an offbeat
rhythm. You can’t help but feel like you’re watching a parody rather than a
sincere tribute to female-led blaxploitation films like Foxy Brown, Cleopatra
Jones or Coffy.
Then the plot kicks in, and things get a lot worse before they
get marginally better. Mary feels bad after she kills an anonymous guy, and
makes an orphan out of his son Danny (Jahi Di’Allo Winston). A year later, Mary
rescues Danny from a life of crime by taking out his cartoonishly evil drug
dealer boss Uncle (Xander Berkeley). Unfortunately for Mary, Uncle was
protected by the Russian mafia-esque rivals of her surrogate gangster dad Benny
(Danny Glover). Mary wants to keep her involvement with Uncle’s death a secret
from Benny, but his biological son Tom (How to Get Away with Murder’s Billy
Brown) wants to go to war.
First off, while in her book and in interviews, Taraji
talks about melting into the character and things of that nature, she is not
that type of actress. Taraji is like Tom Cruise, Will Smith, and others who
when you see them on screen, it is them with a different background, hairstyle,
and/or occupation. Which there is nothing wrong with.
And two: Henson is just the greatest.
The crowd I watched with stayed quiet for a lot of the film, but her scenes
inspired cheers, and that’s just what you want in a film like this. The movie
simply doesn’t give her enough action sequences, and despite the fact that many
of them are clumsily blocked, she’s terrific in them; you may find yourself
convinced that a feature film that only featured Henson swirling and kicking and shooting,
nothing else, might allow her to break out as an action star.
Henson
plays the titular Mary, a killer in the inner circle of a Boston gang led by
Danny Glover's Benny. A year earlier, while assassinating a gambler who owed
Benny money, Mary realized the man had a son in the room next door. She left
without letting the boy see her and, guilt-ridden, kept watch on him from afar.
Well, guilt-ridden up to a point. She
didn't care enough to rescue the newly minted orphan when he fell in with a
Russian gangster who beat him routinely; she didn't keep him from running
drugs; she didn't feed him when he went hungry. Only once young Danny (Jahi
Di'Allo Winston) winds up unconscious in an alley does she come to his aid.
Not long after setting Danny up in her
luxe bachelorette pad, Mary goes to confront the goon he works for. Though the
movie revolves around Mary's cool, she loses it here, killing him and his crew
— then acts surprised when, the next day, this threatens to start a war
between Benny's clan and that of the dead goon. Now she must try to keep Benny
and his son Tom (Billy Brown) from realizing she's the cause of their woes
while simultaneously hiding the nature of her job from young Danny. (A tip for
human beings who were never children: If you have a closet full of automatic
weapons, the fastest way to get a boy to find it is to leave the house after
warning him, in your most "I mean it!" voice, not to enter your
bedroom.
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