Synopsis
To protect an 8-year-old girl, a dangerous assassin reunites with her mother and her lethal associates to take down a ruthless crime syndicate and its army of henchmen.
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Cast
- Karen GillanSam
- Lena HeadeyScarlet
- Chloe ColemanEmily
- Carla GuginoMadeleine
- Michelle YeohFlorence
- Angela BassettAnna May
- Paul GiamattiNathan
- Ralph InesonJim McAlester
- Adam NagaitisVirgil
- Michael SmileyDr. Ricky
Recommendations
- 75
The A.V. Club
Gunpowder Milkshake comes alive in its darkly comic action sequences, which prioritize creativity as much as brutality, with an uncommon focus on props, locations, and wide compositions. - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
Please leave all logic and reality at the door as you settle in for a violent slice of Netflix original movie entertainment featuring an outstanding cast of first-rate actors clearly having a great time shooting up the joint. - 67
IndieWire
This first entry could stand to be a bit more satisfying on its own, but the sugar rush that accompanies “Gunpowder Milkshake” is more than sweet enough to prove its place in a fast-growing sub-genre, with a cherry on top. - 67
The Film Stage
When Papushado’s film finds the right tonal balance, meshing noir bleakness with pops of art deco color, there are fireworks to behold. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
Though not without its moments, the film offers too little of interest for its leading ladies to do, and feels throughout like an adaptation of a comic book that was written for the sole purpose of being sold to an IP-hungry film studio. - 50
Movie Nation
If Israeli B-movie maker Navot Papushado (“Rabies,” “Big Bad Wolves”) had kept this thing on its feet and sprinting — fewer pauses for motherly pathos, Spaghetti Western face-offs, etc. — “Milkshake” would have gone down easier, no matter how much gunpowder was used. - 40
Slashfilm
There’s a lot of flash and style, and all in service of an empty story with unmemorable gunplay. - 32
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
This is regurgitated shoot-’em-up nothingness fetishistically dressed in the cosplay of equality. The women are not characters to care about, but props to kill and be killed.
