Veteran action director Martin Campbell works convolution overtime as he puts Maggie Q through her paces as seemingly indestructible top-dollar assassin Anna in The Protégé, which co-stars Samuel L. Jackson and Michael Keaton, as fellow wetworkers, Moody and Rembrandt, respectively.
Anna, as an orphaned Vietnamese child, was saved by Moody, smuggled out of Vietnam and brought up in the ways of the hired gun. When Moody and Anna become targets of a nefarious Mr. Big (David Rintoul), Keaton's Rembrandt and others are brought in to shut down nettlesome inquiries, which leads to a little globetrotting (Bucharest, London) and a showdown during a charity gala back in Vietnam.
Maggie Q.'s Anna is lethal in both form-fitting black leather and Manolo Blahniks, and her banter with Keaton is sharp as her aim. Both Jackson, 73, and Keaton, 70, are especially impressive as seasoned bagmen who can still take a punch and deliver a stinging line with the best of them.
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