AVA (2020) - She Is Not, Is She?

★★☆☆☆

If you're not fed up yet with hitwomen and stuff, I kind of am to be honest, you can go for 'AVA' which features Jessica Chastain shooting, slashing, strangling, fist-fighting, up and side kicking guys that she's ordered to kill without being allowed to ask about them, though she's helplessly curious. What later on gets her down the bloody road is, as you might've figured, such dangerous curiosity of hers! Speaking of hitwomen, in case you're still interested, Last year's 'Anna' is surely a better choice than this in light of storytelling and action choreography.

An actress like Jessica Chastain I guess, is not cut out for action films like this. In spite of maybe trying her utmost to catch up with the nowadays action heroine Charlize Theron, the move that Chastain is making here is not eye-catching or slick at all. Plus the story's sort of a cliche about daddy issue, alcoholism, betrayals, breaking protocols, then to kill and be killed. A scene where Chastain's AVA confesses her past at a meeting is supposed to be rather emotional but instead it appears so lame and corny indeed! 'AVA' is but another stars-packed film that simply puts great actors to waste like the latest 'Project Power'. Still I'm pleased to see John Malkovich, Joan Chen, and Chastain too while she's not fighting of course!

Catching such a film is like drinking a cup of water. It eases thirst but it's tasteless. The truth is, we can't help but keep longing for something more thrilling, sicker, fancier, so to speak, that would carry us further away than ever before. We keep trying to fill the hole that in fact can never be filled. So I've been learning not to expect too much of anything in order not to be let down so completely, but sometimes like this time I still stupidly do!