Wildcat

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	Kate Beckinsale	Ada
	Lewis Tan	Roman
	Rasmus Hardiker	Edward
	Bailey Patrick	Curtis
	Alice Krige	Mrs. Christina Vine
	Charles Dance	Frasier Mahoney
	Tom Bennett	Galloway
	Mathilde Warnier	Cia
	Edmund Kingsley	Finlay
	Isabelle Moxley	Charlotte
	Isabelle Willis	Young Ada
	Teddy Holton-Frances	Young Edward
	Martin Razpopov	Rouben
	Matt Willis	Lennie
	Peter Barrett	The Messenger
	Nicholas Witchell	News Reporter
	Zechariah Smith	Nicky
	Roxy Striar	Jody
	Toni Davidoff	Owen
	James Nunn	Taxi Man
	Samuel Harbrow	Traffic Warden
	Sam Gittins	Spider
	Poppy Snow	Victoria
	Eugene Lin	Security Guard 1
	David Wade	Security Guard 2

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Director	James Nunn
Writer	Dominic Burns
Producer	Crawford Anderson-Dillon, Jasmine Becker-Williams, Dominic Burns, James Harris, Mark Lane, Christian Mercuri, Sky Morfopoulos, Gabriella Morpeth, Dominic Rustam, Roman Viaris-de-Lesegno
Musician	Si Begg
Photography	Maja Zamojda

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My quick rating - 4.7/10. Wildcat follows an ex–black ops team that reunites for one last desperate heist, all to save the life of an eight-year-old girl. I’m always a sucker for a Kate Beckinsale action flick. If you’ve seen any of the Underworld movies, you get it. She opens the film with a quick burst of exposition before the story jumps in with both feet, and the movie wastes no time delivering its heist, which is over before the 80s-style Bond credits start rolling. That’s certainly one way to pace a film.

We flash back to “10 years earlier,” where Ada (Beckinsale) and Roman (Lewis Tan) reappear to ponder the idea of kids and admit they’re both married to the job. It’s a quiet moment, but the movie doesn’t let it breathe. Instead, it vaults ahead to “10 days before the heist,” suggesting the past didn’t have much left to say. If you’re enjoying the bouncing timeline, the film then jumps again - this time to “10 hours before the heist” - where the real story finally decides to begin.

Alice Krige steps in as Ms. Vine, a villain with a perfectly sharpened tone that fits the role like a glove. The script scatters extra plot threads around in an attempt to elevate the film above a standard heist setup. A detour through the wrong London neighborhood that erupts into a full-on gang riot adds some needed chaos, and for a moment, you can see the movie shooting for something wilder. But most sequences stretch longer than they should, and even with a few solid pieces of choreography, the momentum stalls more than it sprints.

It’s impossible for me not to mention Beckinsale’s appearance. Whether the culprit is CGI smoothing or heavy makeup, the effect gives her a strangely plastic sheen. The inconsistency becomes distracting, especially when her look shifts between flashbacks. I hate calling it out, but it pulls attention away from her performance, and that’s never ideal when she’s the biggest draw.

The action scenes that do land are fine. Serviceable, competent, easy to follow, but rarely push past average. The whole movie carries that familiar STS energy: a mid-budget action project built to spotlight a recognizable star. There’s nothing wrong with that lane, but Wildcat doesn’t do much to stand out. It moves from beat to beat without ever gripping me, and even the higher-stakes moments never rise above “just okay.”

Beckinsale deserves scripts with more bite because she still sells intensity better than most. Wildcat, meanwhile, sits firmly in the middle of the action-movie pack - watchable enough, but unlikely to leave much of an impression after the credits fade.

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