This is an example of how a pretty good assassin film can also contain reprehensible moral trash, namely that it's perfectly OK to teach kids that violence and murder not only is an integral part of life, but it will make you sexy and hip.
1. Kid's parents get killed because they chose a very very dangerous line of work and they put their kid at risk by having her local. 2. Thug uncle living a life of crime in Chicago had a son who died violently. That kid's room had violence all over the walls, not just Scarface promotionals but ACTUAL GUNS. Gee, what a surprise that he was killed. 3. Same uncle has no problem teaching this little girl to be his assassin, to lose any respect for life she might've regained, and to put her in danger constantly. 4. Oh wait, she said she WANTED TO BE A KILLER. That excuses everything. If our kids have had a hard life and want to be criminals, of course we should let them! 4. Government operatives are inept enough to lose track of a 9 yr old at an international airport. Transit personnel have no problem with young kids FLYING and travelling in general absolutely alone as long as they have a little piece of paper with an address on it. 5. Family members, especially women who have already been broken and used by the asshole men in their sad lives, stand by and watch as children are corrupted.
Now, the action sequences and stealthy tricks were neat, and satisfying for the genre, but this movie, like many, selectively ignores life consequences and focuses on pointless glamgore. At least with movies like La Femme Nikita, we see that the life lived by the young assassin turns out to be, in the end, not as much glamorous as it is cold, cruel, vicious, and unforgiving.
With this piece of schlock, we just have a pretty, deceitful piece of gore porn that will be simply enjoyed without thought by most, but will also be viewed with awe by some semi-retarded angsty adolescent girls who will buy-in a little bit more to the myth of GRRRL POWER that is actually keeping them repressed and separated from any real understanding of responsibility and influence in life.
1. Kid's parents get killed because they chose a very very dangerous line of work and they put their kid at risk by having her local. 2. Thug uncle living a life of crime in Chicago had a son who died violently. That kid's room had violence all over the walls, not just Scarface promotionals but ACTUAL GUNS. Gee, what a surprise that he was killed. 3. Same uncle has no problem teaching this little girl to be his assassin, to lose any respect for life she might've regained, and to put her in danger constantly. 4. Oh wait, she said she WANTED TO BE A KILLER. That excuses everything. If our kids have had a hard life and want to be criminals, of course we should let them! 4. Government operatives are inept enough to lose track of a 9 yr old at an international airport. Transit personnel have no problem with young kids FLYING and travelling in general absolutely alone as long as they have a little piece of paper with an address on it. 5. Family members, especially women who have already been broken and used by the asshole men in their sad lives, stand by and watch as children are corrupted.
Now, the action sequences and stealthy tricks were neat, and satisfying for the genre, but this movie, like many, selectively ignores life consequences and focuses on pointless glamgore. At least with movies like La Femme Nikita, we see that the life lived by the young assassin turns out to be, in the end, not as much glamorous as it is cold, cruel, vicious, and unforgiving.
With this piece of schlock, we just have a pretty, deceitful piece of gore porn that will be simply enjoyed without thought by most, but will also be viewed with awe by some semi-retarded angsty adolescent girls who will buy-in a little bit more to the myth of GRRRL POWER that is actually keeping them repressed and separated from any real understanding of responsibility and influence in life.