The Protege

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	Michael Keaton	Rembrandt
	Maggie Q	Anna
	Samuel L. Jackson	Moody
	David Rintoul	Edward Hayes
	Patrick Malahide	Vohl
	Ray Fearon	Duquet
	Ori Pfeffer	Athens
	Robert Patrick	Billy Boy
	Florin Piersic Jr.	Ram
	Tudor Chirila	Petru
	Velizar Binev	Don Preda
	George Pistereanu	Vali
	Eva Nugyen Thorsen	Young Anna
	Alexandru Bordea	Anna's Father
	Tanja Keller	Anna's Mother
	Sara Maria Groseanu	Anna's Sister 1
	Alina Wang	Anna's Sister 2
	Taj Atwal	Seema
	Caroline Loncq	Claudia
	Gamba Cole	Benny
	Phong Giang	Chu
	Richenda Carey	Mother Lucia
	Dimitar Nikolov	Lucas Hayes
	Aida Economu	Anna's Friend 1
	Madalina Anea	Anna's Friend 2

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Director	Martin Campbell
Writer	Richard Wenk
Producer	Ekaterina Baker, Andrei Boncea, Dragos Buliga, Christa Campbell, Luke Daniels, Boaz Davidson, Moshe Diamant, Valentin Dimitrov, Claiton Fernandes, Vladimir Fernandes, Jeffrey Greenstein, Lati Grobman, Eduard Irimia, Avi Lerner, Yariv Lerner, Bernard Mazauric, Balan Melarkode, Christopher Milburn, Euzebio Munhoz Jr., Daniel Negret, Gabriel Popescu, Lonnie Ramati, Arthur M. Sarkissian, Regina Seifert, Trevor Short, Jarrett Spiegel, Kyle Stroud, Robert Van Norden, Gareth West, Simon Williams
Musician	Photek
Photography	David Tattersall

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My quick rating - 6,5/10. I had a pretty good time with this one. It is exactly what it is supposed to be. Action, with more action and the usual cliches to keep the flick rolling along. It is not going to make you ponder what is going on for more than a minute but just keeps shooting the bullets at you. The casting in this makes it especially entertaining. Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Keaton where do you go wrong with these two trying to match wits. In this movie though, Jackson is the teacher or more father figure to Maggie Q which I have seen in a few other action roles and she handles herself well. Borrowing heavily from Hong Kong flix in the same vein, the main attraction is guns blazing. Then again, they pimp this point by mentioning the studio of John Wick. Although not quite as frenetic nor original as Wick was, it still is a quality betrayal and revenge story that delivers for the popcorn time of the year. I also have to say between Maggie and Keaton are some of the best parts of the flick. They deliver such a fun hate and love relationship in this. Or in some scenes, love and kill relations. Reminded me of Mr. and Mrs. Smith a few times. But overall fun as long as you check the logical thinking portion of your brain at the concession stand. At times, even someone knowing nothing about guns may wonder when they will need to reload LOL.

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