Joe Lynch's latest, Everly, is a fairly standard shoot-em-up action movie. Think Die Hard. Both take place at Christmas (a seasonal assault in its own right), but instead of resourceful Officer John McClane fighting off a swarm of bad guys holding his wife hostage at the Nakatomi Plaza, we have hostage-as-heroine Everly (Salma Hayek) trapped and under siege in an apartment she can't leave, attempting to clandestinely shuttle cash to her mother and the daughter she abandoned before the bounty on her head is claimed. Everly has been held hostage for four years by the Yakuza, who just found out she has been working with the police. Realizing that her mortal time is limited, Everly's latent Mama Bear leanings manifest, and manifest hard: Determined to...[Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...]
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