Barely Lethal, starring Hailee Steinfeld as a secret ops teen-sassin who longs for a normal high school girl's life, felt like it had the potential to be something great, but - as demonstrated within the film's own title - it never managed to rise above its own lazy, mediocre jokes.
From Fanboys' Kyle Newman, Barely Lethal boasts some impressive names (Samuel L. Jackson, Jessica Alba, Game of Thrones' Sophie Turner) but is cursed with a confused tone, painfully predictable twists, and - wouldn't you know it? - impressive names who aren't really all that good at comedy.
Steinfeld plays "Agent 83" of the Prescott School, an off-the-books assassin training center for orphan girls. Think the "Black Widow" program but played for laughs. And picture Sam Jackson, who plays Instructor Hardman, scolding a six-year-old for accidentally setting off a bomb she was meant to defuse. Well, during a mission to apprehend the gorgeous and lethal Victoria Knox (Alba), 83 falls behind and uses Hardman's "I'm not in the rescue business" M.O. as a chance to fake her own death and attend high school as an exchange student named Megan.
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From Fanboys' Kyle Newman, Barely Lethal boasts some impressive names (Samuel L. Jackson, Jessica Alba, Game of Thrones' Sophie Turner) but is cursed with a confused tone, painfully predictable twists, and - wouldn't you know it? - impressive names who aren't really all that good at comedy.
Steinfeld plays "Agent 83" of the Prescott School, an off-the-books assassin training center for orphan girls. Think the "Black Widow" program but played for laughs. And picture Sam Jackson, who plays Instructor Hardman, scolding a six-year-old for accidentally setting off a bomb she was meant to defuse. Well, during a mission to apprehend the gorgeous and lethal Victoria Knox (Alba), 83 falls behind and uses Hardman's "I'm not in the rescue business" M.O. as a chance to fake her own death and attend high school as an exchange student named Megan.
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