Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticNearly everyone we meet in “The Protégé” is on the brink of retirement, all but one or two of them nudged violently in that direction by Maggie Q’s title character.
Anna specializes in finding things “that don’t want to be found” (as a cover, she maintains a rare book store), but her true gift seems to be in disposing of them once they’ve been located, which Q handily demonstrates in the operation that opens the movie, one that ends with a hard-to-reach Russian crime boss floating face down in his private pool.Anna is ruthlessly efficient, but also works best as a team, paired with mentor Moody (Samuel L.
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