Predictable and lifeless, Ava is a film where director Tate Taylor and writer Matthew Newton seem to have forgone the concept of including ‘entertainment’ in this all-action assassin feature.
Specialising in high profile hits, Jesssica Chastain is wasted as Ava, ex-military, ex-addict who has achieved a level of atonement for her past but at the expense of family life in Boston. But when two successive jobs go desperately wrong, Ava needs to protect herself and that same family, no matter how well John Malkovich tries to protect her within the organisation.
With its trite script, laughable scenarios, bad wigs and poor characterisation (add Geena Davis, Common, Colin Farrell, Joan Chen to the cast list), Ava is little more than a bore from start to finish.
Rating: 35%
Director: Tate Taylor (The Help, The Girl on the Train)
Writer: Matthew Newton (Who Are We Now, Three Blind Mice)
Main cast: Jesssica Chastain (The Help, Molly’s Game), John Malkovich (Bird Box, Dangerous Liaisons), Geena Davis (Thelma & Louise, The Fly)
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