How often do we find action movies produced by Netflix to be generic? Yet the platform keeps giving us new such flicks. Netflix's latest action/thriller, The Mother starring Jennifer Lopez, is about an assassin who has to come out of hiding to protect a child in danger. It seems as if it can garner attention, but will the storytelling and execution do it justice?
In The Mother, Lopez plays an unnamed ex-FBI assassin who is now an informant. While pregnant, she is hunted down by ex-SAS soldier Adrian (Joseph Fiennes) and arms dealer Hector (Gael García Bernal). Soon after giving birth, she's convinced by the government to give up her infant daughter to a foster family to protect the child from bad guys. Twelve years later, and the bad guys are now fresh on the trail, forcing the mother to come out of hiding and do what she does best -- kill.
