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KATE BECKINSALE steps up to see if she can claim the Theron crown in this latest female-fronted post-John Wick bisexually inflected actioner.
The Underworld star gets her own riff on cult-fave Crank, a rage-powered ball of hyper-violent Wickian chaos kept at bay only by periodic electric shocks. But she tosses the power switch aside when her hunky love interest is killed under dodgy circumstances and the trail to his killer leads all the way through to. The Underworld.
Beckinsale delivers a magnetic performance, effortlessly boosting an otherwise very nuts’n’bolts by-the-numbers female-led shoot ‘em up, not especially indistinguishable from Atomic Blonde, Anna, Lucy or Peppermint.