Gunpowder Milkshake
Directed by Navot Papushado
- action
- crime
- thriller
The story
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.
What it’s like
Saturated primary colour does most of the work here: hot pinks, acid greens and cobalt blue flood saturated sets, with neon signage and sodium-orange streetlight spilling across rain-slick alleys and a stylised, comic-panel prettiness to nearly every frame. The camera is restless and inventive, with whip pans, sharp cuts and split-screen flourishes, and the fight choreography is clean and wide enough to read, the sound mix punchy with needle-drop pop and rock beneath gunfire and thuds. The vibe is brash, candy-coated and knowingly cool, a pulpy, sugar-rush entertainment that feels like a graphic novel set to a loud playlist. Violence is frequent and stylised, with plenty of gunfire, stabbings and bloodless-but-brutal kills played for kinetic comedy rather than dread, and there is some profanity and peril involving a child. The emotional throughline is a guarded assassin slowly reconnecting with her estranged mother and a small girl who needs protecting, so the tenderness arrives in bursts between the carnage. It suits a late night with the lights off, a loud Friday, or anyone who wants a playful action romp with a warm family heart. Not for those seeking gentle or quiet viewing.
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