Andy (Charlize Theron) and her team of gun & blade toting mercenaries have been around for a long long LONG time. They are immortals who have been fighting to make the world a better place, the very youngest of them for only a few hundred years, but for Andromache more than 5000. But is the world getting better? Look outside right now, watch the American news. What do you think? Andy is just as disappointed and disillusioned. She is thinking of hanging up her battle axe, but one more job beckons and why not? Well, because it was a ruse to capture their miraculous resurrections on film, that's why. Andy and her crew are being stalked by Big Pharma, run by a Lex Luthor level CEO who has hopes to exploit whatever keeps these warriors alive. Add to the intrigue, the rising of another immortal (they have dreams about her emergence) and Andy's plan to retire has just become clusterfucked.
There are hints of the world-weariness of being around for hundreds and thousands of years at the heart of this movie, but for the most part it is a bullet heavy actioner. Obviously the setup to a franchise, there is much more to be explored, amusingly enough, by Rucka as well, who worked on the second graphic novel only after signing over the film rights to the first. This is not a Highlander level of mythology to setup, much more down to earth, but with so much potential. It is also well worth noting that this is an action movie centred around women, with Andy and Nile (KiKi Layne, Captive State) playing centre place, and there is not even a hint of them relying upon the benefit of a man to make their places.
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