The idea here is that Mary can make changes for the youngster and herself by going straight and getting out of the game. As a teen, Mary was taken under the wing of Benny (a slumming Danny Glover), a crime kingpin who taught her everything she knows about contract killing and watched as she fell for his creepy son, Tom (Billy Brown). That’s the least the hit woman can do since she herself orphaned the kid, who runs his own scam game under the tutelage of a Yiddish-speaking hood (Xander Berkeley). Henson plays Mary, a hired gun working out of Boston who becomes a mother protector to Danny (Jahi Di’Allo Winston), a 13-year-old orphan. Every paying audience member deserves their 12 bucks back. As the film’s executive producer, she had the power to do it now it’s too late for the woulda, shoulda, coulda. Surely, the Oscar-nominated actress ( The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), the one who lights up the screen in Hidden Figures and as Cookie Lyon on TV’s Empire, could have just done an improvisation on this premise and come up with something livelier than this dipshit drivel. Henson is such a firecracker she almost makes you believe Proud Mary might have been a decent crime flick – if she fired the asses of the clueless dudes who wrote and directed it and took on those jobs herself.

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