Proud Mary

Taraji P. Henson’s Proud Mary is a great leading woman in search of a good movie.

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Yes, Taraji P. Henson — and cinematographer — are better than an iffy “Proud Mary”

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As a haunted assassin who bonds with a kid, Taraji P. Henson has a humanity that trumps this watchable wad of B-movie formula.

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Taraji P. Henson may still have a career as an action heroine ahead, but she needs better material than Proud Mary.

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Ms. Henson, ever simmering, takes Mary’s moral conundrum very seriously. Her expressive eyes and nuanced body language work well for the character; she can put across a major change in attitude just by shifting a hip. The script, though, doesn’t give her a whole lot of material with which to credibly enact her character’s crisis.

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The Oscar nominee finally gets a much-deserved chance at a career boost, but the film fails to meet her talents with sloppy direction and underwhelming action.

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'Empire' star's bid for action-hero glory keeps getting shot to pieces by friendly fire and clichéd one-last-job storyline.

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Babak Najafi's Proud Mary is a so-so action melodrama with an insulting whiff of generic blaxploitation stylistics.

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Kudos, though, to Henson, who’s mesmerizing to behold even in this drearily predictable bit of throwback blowback. Hey, terrific poster, though.

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Taraji P. Henson plays a killer caring for the boy she orphaned in Babak Najafi's follow-up to 'London Has Fallen.'

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An all-male writing and directing team reduces a lady assassin’s femininity to lipstick and maternal instincts.

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