AVA

Ava | Official Trailer (HD) | Vertical Entertainment
Vertical Entertainment US
Jessica Chastain is a super-deadly, highly skilled martial artist and assassin. In other words, a fantasy, and not a particularly well written one at that. There are three pretty good knock down, drag out fights between our lead actors along with the usual murderous mayhem unleashed on legions of thugs. John Malkovich performs well in his fight scene, amazingly well since he's almost my age, and I have trouble just putting on my trousers in the morning. They try to explore some of the Jessica's past, she visits her family, but the conversations they have make no sense. The whole thing looks like someone threw a script together in an afternoon. Why would anyone think this was worth funding? Possibly because four big name actors agreed to be in it, but why would they agree to be associated with it? Maybe because there is nothing else going on, or maybe they like doing fight scenes. Vulture has an explanation. Roger Ebert is lost in the weeds.