Protégé, The

[Opens Aug. 20 in theaters.] After her surrogate assassin father (Samuel L. Jackson), who raised her to be his protégé as a young child (Eva Nugyen Thorsen) when finding the traumatized, resourceful orphan in Saigon, is killed in England in Martin Campbell's entertaining, action-packed, well-paced, wit-filled, violent, unpredictable, star-studded (Michael Keaton, Robert Patrick, Gong Li, Patrick Malahide, Jack Derges, Ori Pfeffer, and Velizar Binev), 109-minute thriller, a skilled, revenge-driven contract killer (Maggie Q) reluctantly returns to Vietnam to search for the powerful men (David Rintoul, Patrick Gerald Duggan, et al.) responsible.
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