Film: The Rhythm Section

How a crack user (‘not an addict’) can become a world-class assassin in a few weeks is anyone’s guess, but this film says that’s possible.

The synopsis said much more about how the aforementioned Stephanie Patrick is inconsolable after losing all of her family in a plane accident but the Rhythm Section is not about how she coped at all. It’s about her training to take out the person responsible for the plane ‘accident’.

I thought at least calling it the rhythm section meant there were two unlikely people working together so this may be a bit of a buddy movie. Her trainer whose name I fail to now recall is played by the unlikely Jude Law. He’s hardly in it, perhaps if they did buddy up, this may have been less of a predictable no-starter.

5/10