Día de la Madre

Netflix and the Poles serve up a gritty female revenge flick. The main character Nina is a former Spec Ops agent who must use her skills to rescue her kidnapped son, whom she never knew, and she will have to fight her way through the Polish gangster underworld alone. The story is nothing original, this theme is quite common, but the Poles have taken it up a notch. Form clearly wins over content. Agnieszka Grochowska plays the role of the tough agent very believably, all in one cool expression, and I believed her in the one-on-one fights as well and that is very important. Technically, the film is on par, with good music, great action, attractive camera raids and great use of the environment. Occasionally the director helped himself with some interesting slow motion and overall I found it very playful and pleasantly brutal, which does the trick. I have to praise the villains too. The skinhead leader in particular was a proper nutter, and the whole thing has a relentless pace. For me, a cool action one-shot that kept my attention and since I wasn't expecting much, I'm happy to round up. 7/10. (24.05.2023)