THE MOTHER - Netflix Movie

THE MOTHER Trailer (2023) Jennifer Lopez
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Pretty much all action. The only non-action was the couple of dozen words of dialog between mother and daughter and the moral judgement that trafficking people is worse than dealing arms. Some people have limits to the rules they will transgress, some people don't. Jennifer is nice to see even if she is a mean killing machine.

Beautiful female assassin falls out with a couple arms merchants when she finds they are not just dealing arms but also people and blows the whistle. Naturally they want revenge, but when they can't find her they kidnap her daughter from middle America and take her to Cuba. Jennifer, who has been in hiding in Alaska for the last 12 years goes on the warpath. The FBI agent that she saved the last time she was in a shootout with the bad guys goes with her. They catch up with one of the kidnappers and after a lengthy chase through the streets of Havana, a chase that involves a motorbike, a car and a bunch of running, mom nails the villain with the car. Using standard US military interrogation techniques i.e. waterboarding, the villain gives up the head villain's hideout - La Plantacion. Mom knocks him over and he dies a gruesome death when is impaled on a broken bottle.

They visit La Plantacion where they shoot a dozen bad guys, rescue the daughter, and then the head bad guy gets the drop on mom. Of course he does. But she taunts him, he reacts and ends up dead. I don't recall exactly how he died. Maybe FBI shot him.

On their way to return daughter to her Midwest foster family, the other big baddy attacks. Jennifer shows up a minute later. A puddle of gasoline has been accumulating under one of the wrecks. With a flick of her lighter mom sets the gasoline ablaze and in the ensuing confusion mother and daughter make their getaway on a big, powerful motorcycle that she picked up at their last stop for gas and snacks. She returns to her Alaskan hideout with reluctant daughter in tow. Once there, mom starts teaching her 12 year old daughter how to survive, including how to shoot and hunt. One day there is an accident and a trip to the doctor and now daughter's name is in the great medical industrial computer system. And of course that one bit of information is enough to alert the bad guy, so in short order he shows up with a platoon of henchmen.

Now we've got a gang of thugs on snowmobiles blasting through the woods. I haven't seen the like since that old James Bond movie, or maybe it was on old Arnold Schwarzenegger movie. Mom takes out the thugs one two three, and then we have our final showdown, except daughter shows up and shoots the bad guy. Just kidding, she shoots him with rock salt, which knocks both mom and the baddie down a hillside. Mom hits her head on a rock and the big baddie makes off with the daughter. Mom recovers just in time to see them driving off so now she has to shoot the bad guy who is at least 100 yards away, maybe 200, while he is driving. He's not going too fast, but it's a rough road. It's an impossible shot, but she is the king of the killers and while it takes her two or three shots, she does connect and kill the big baddie and her daughter is unscathed. Daughter is reunited with her foster family and mom goes on her merry way.