If you've already watched “Atomic Blonde” and “The Old Guard” a couple of times, and you are jones-ing for another action movie about an ass-kicking, female agent, this might be the movie for you. If, that is, you keep your expectations low.
Jessica Chastain flexes her muscles as the titular assassin, who gets betrayed by her employers and has to go on a rampage. We've seen this story before, and it has been done much, much better. The only thing remarkable about “Ava” is how much star power goes to waste here. Besides Chastain, we have John Malkovich, Geena Davis, and Colin Farrell, all doing the best they can with a cliched script and a weak supporting cast, including Common, showing why he is a musician, not an actor.
The one thing “Ava” gets right is the action. The movie sucks when the characters are talking, but when they shut up and start kicking each other's asses, it's actually "John Wick"-level entertaining. Unfortunately, unlike “John Wick,” which is full of such non-stop action that you can (and should!) watch it with the sound off, “Ava” is full of long, boring scenes of family drama and laborious, unnecessary character development. Watching with the sound off isn't going to help with this one.
2 stars out of 5
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