It’s good to see Kate Beckinsale back making action movies again. She’ll have a place in a lot of action fans’ hearts for her role in the Underworld franchise, but she hasn’t actually been in one since 2021’s little-seen Jolt, a Prime Video exclusive. Beckinsale reteams with Amazon again for Canary Black, a new thriller that finds her kicking ass once again.
As seen in the trailer for Canary Black, Beckinsale plays top CIA agent Avery Graves, who must betray her country to rescue her kidnapped husband. The only way to do it is to rely on her elite fighting skills and underworld contacts to steal the necessary information.
The film is directed by Pierre Morel, who is probably best known as the director of Taken. However, genre fans know he’s also the guy who gave us one of the best fighting flicks of all-time, District B13. Morel has never quite lived up to the promise of those two films. Last year, he gave us one of the absolute worst pieces of crap in action-comedy Freelance. Unforgivable. The hope is always that he’ll rediscover what he once had.
Joining Beckinsale in the cast are Ray Stevenson, Rupert Friend, Jaz Hutchins, Goran Kostic, and Ben Mills.
Canary Black hits Prime Video on October 24th.
SYNOPSIS: A top CIA operative, Avery Graves, is blackmailed by terrorists into betraying her own country to save her kidnapped husband. Cut off from her team, she turns to her underworld contacts to survive and help locate the coveted intelligence that the kidnappers want. Betrayed at every turn, she must rely on her cutting-edge training and primitive fighting skills in a deadly race to deliver a ransom that could trigger a global crisis.
