Barely Lethal

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Yeah, so.. As the genre has evolved, I have come to love these badass/best-of-the-best/agent/spy/CIA/whatever-type movies. The specially trained, superhumanly awesome agents. And a movie about such an agent going to high-school seemed like an interesting idea. And it is. It is just a shame that the potential is wasted. Not totally wasted, but a lot more wasted than it should have been. The pacing is kind of off. The action is just OK. Some of the fights are poorly choreographed, and rely way to much on stunt work - as in you totally see that it's not the actors fighting. Too much shaky cam too. What actually works the best is the teen-drama-stuff. That's also a little off at times, but mostly quite alright. The movie is very uneven. It's like a.. teen drama action comedy. The comedy isn't great, but there are a couple of funny scenes. Some of the humor is kind of smart, but everything is just to uneven. The balance between drama, action and comedy is off. There is a dad-character that has a couple of good scenes, but it is not consistent enough. I could like to see more of him, but it wouldn't do anything for the plot in general. Jessica Alba and Samuel L Jackson is here mostly for their wide appeal. They are not exactly crucial. Although, they do an OK job. This movie could have been very good. Less drama, more and better action, maybe an R-rating, a little more pizazz it could have been awesome. But instead it gets a little too generic.

'If you think being an assassin is hard, try high school.' This is an often repeated line by Hailee Steinfeld who stars as Megan Walsh, also known as teen assassin '83' trained at Prescott, an elite espionage facility for orphans run by Samuel L Jackson who plays a character who seems to have taken time out from some Marvel action films. Megan just wants to go to high school and act like a normal kid rather than be a teen agent so fakes her own death and poses as a foreign exchange student from Canada and joins a foster family. Of course she realises that being a high school student is no walk in the park with plenty of mean girls around making life hard for her. However her lethal skills are soon put to use and hit the internet leading to her cover being blown which leads to a side plot where Jackson and a senior assassin (Jessica Alba) are on to her. Maybe this film would had turned out better if it was written or directed by the late John Hughes who would had given it some innovative spin. This is just a mixture of 21 Jump Street meets Spy Kids meets Mean Girls meets Kick Ass. Its a silly and predictable film and you know that when you see Jackson is playing just a cardboard cliché of the type of authority figure that is only played by him these days. The comedy and drama is uneven, you even have a scene where a teenager is threatened with torture and you think this is supposed to be some type of a family comedy.