First I know that the first thing you would be looking for is the title but forget it, my header picture has exposed the title already which is: "IN FROM THE COLD". I don't know how I was able to like this movie but somehow I fell in love with it and would really expect a season 2. First I must say I am not good at writing Movies Reviews and only trying to do this more often to sharpen my skill at it. So let me begin by explaining briefly what the movie is about.
Photo Credit: Netflix
THE PLOT OF THE MOVIE
The movie talks about a woman/mother named "Jennie Franklin" who used to be a Russian Spy and now based in the United States. Back during the days when she was Russian Spy, she was known as The Whisper, for making untraceable killings. But now, she is retired and now living the life she always wanted to live as a mother and wife but unfortunately, she recently got divorced with her husband and travels to Spain with her daughter for a ice skating competition.
Coincidently, during her stay in spain a series of killings begin to occur which looks like "The Whisper" Signature killings. Jennie Franklin is being tracked by the CIA which is being led by Chauncey in order to find who is making those killings.
Jennie Franklin is then kidnapped by the CIA at the hotel she was lodged in SPAIN where her real name is being uncovered as Anya Peltrova with her spy name, "THE WHISPER". As expected, Jenny denied to bear any of the names of even know who or what is called "THE WHISPER". Entirely, She denied being an Ex-Russian Spy and claims she is just single American mother who came all the way to Spain for her daughter's competition.
Since Chauncey saw she was not willing to accept her real identity, he ordered that she she should be killed. With mad Combat kills, Jennie single handedly took out over 15 CIA Trained Agent and while trying to escape, she found out that it was all planned so she can review her Identity and how she fought those CIA agents were being recorded.
Since there was a recording and no way to explain how a normal American Citizen could take out trained CIA Agents, She had to come out clean to be who they said she is and then threatened her that she would be taken to prison if she doesn't cooperate with them into finding who is making those killings.
In order not to lay off spoilers, I would tell you that Jenny is more than just an Ex-Russian Spy but one with Super-human Abilities. That's what makes it possible for her to do many of those things. She has some abilities that came in handy to complete some missions for Chauncey.
To discover those special Abilities Jenny has, you may need to watch the movie. I don't want to lay spoilers and I have explained a lot about the movie. There is still a lot to discover, watch and enjoy in this movie.
THE MAIN CHARACTERS OF THE MOVIE
I would like to introduce you to some of the main characters in the movie. I don't know any of them before from any other movie and this movie got me introduced to them. So let's begin:
Photo Credit: NetflixSo this is Alyona khmelnitskaya, while in the movie she acted as Svetlena Petrova. She acted as the lady who trained Anya when she was still a Russian Spy and gave her instructions on mission to execute. I like her character, at some point her Identity wasn't shown but later they reviewed her face.
Photo Credit: NetflixThis is the badass Jennie Franklin Character. She is a 40 year old russian lady and this is my first time seeing her in the movies. She really acted the action play well and I enjoyed her on screen really well. She has a good way to display her emotions, her cries and smiles. I felt everything while watching the movie. At a point I think I fell in love with this character.
Photo Credit: NetflixMeet the Beautiful Ukrainian Actress "Ivanna Sakho". I must say, I have a crush on her. She played as the younger Character of Jennie Franklin where she still lived her old live as being Anya and as a Russian Spy. This Character is the younger Jenny Franklin that was being trained by Svetlena Petrova in the past.
Photo Credit: NetflixMeet the CIA agent who went after Jenny Franklin and threatened to take her to prison if she doesn't cooperate to work with them. This character was quite a pest to jenny's life and didn't make her enjoy daughter and mother moment is Spain. He is a good fighter but no as badass as Jenny when it comes to combat.
Photo Credit: NetflixThis is Charles Brice, he acted the character as Chris. He is a tech guy who is being employed by Chauncey to help in tracking and making tech stuffs. Most of his job is to hack security and develop plans on how to execute a mission.
Photo Credit: Netflix"Lydia Fleming" who acted as Becca Franklin in this movie. So Who is Becca Franklin? If you are thinking she is Jennie Franklin's daughter, then you are absolutely right. Becca has no idea of who are mother is, not even where she is from or the true nationality of her mother. She does even know her mother was once a Russian Spy, or even had any combat skills. From the beginning of the Movie to the very end, Lydia was left in the dark and didn't know a tiny bit of what's happening.
MY THOUGHTS AND VIEWS ABOUT THE MOVIE
The movie is awesome!!! you should definitely give it a watch and try to follow it up closely because they were showing two timelines, one when Jenny was younger and when she still used the name Anya, and the other when she is a older woman and a mother. I enjoyed the action mostly with the little emotions in it. Yeah, it is a thriller movie, it is packed with a lot of stuffs.
So in this movie there are 3mcountries in play, we have the United States, Russia and Spain. When you see them talking about Russia then they are talking about Anya, when they are in Spain they are talking about the present and what is happening at the moment, but when you see United States, they the discussion is about when Jennie was still with her husband in the US. That's all I can say. Thank you for reading. I would appreciate your comments by curating them πππ
WHO IS STARSTRINGS01
Starstrings01 AKA Giftedhands is a Hive lover, a Nigeria musician (Guitarist) and also a student who studies Mechatronics Engineering in the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta.
His goal on Hive is to be more than a regular blogger but something more; someone with a purpose. Thatβs one of the reasons why he founded the newbies initiative @newbies-hive to help guide and support newbies. Kindly click here to follow @newbies-hive curation trail.
He battles and struggles with balancing education and being active on the chain but yet his love and passion for Hive keeps him on balance.
IF YOU LOVE THIS POST, YOU CAN KINDLY SUPPORT BY YOUR COMMENTS, REBLOG AND UPVOTE. IT WOULD BE MUCH APPRECIATED
Guy @starstrings01 you really know how to hide spoilers o, I was already engrossed in and enjoying it when you cut it short. With these reviews, I'd love to watch it...but when I am back in school..
I still don't know what you are doing that you can't watch it at school?... It's just 8 episodes..
Ofcourse, I said back in school...
At home, power is quite epileptic so I gotta conserved power as much as possible. And also I have tonnes of movies to watch in my laptop akready. ππ
@tipu curate
Upvoted π (Mana: 36/76) Liquid rewards.
Thank you very much!
To discover those special Abilities Jenny has, you may need to watch the movie. Awwnn.....Just when I was starting to enjoy the movie, creating pictures and videos in my mind. You've just forced me to go watch the movie!
You need to watch it, you would enjoy it. I kept that not to spoil the movie. So go find out yourself.
Maybe a little bit of a bad timing talking about good things from Russia brother xD
I know I shouldn't be laughing but I just can't help it. ππ
π you just made me laugh but it's true.
Lol.. didn't occur to me... I really loved the movie.
I couldn't hold my laughter at the comment .
Everyone is anti Russian now.
I wonder if all Russians are supporting their president or if some of them are still thinking rightly.
I came here to ask the same question too.... So much hate on Russia, even their born footballers aren't supporting them
Your content has been voted as a part of Encouragement program. Keep up the good work!
Use Ecency daily to boost your growth on platform!
Support Ecency
Vote for new Proposal
Delegate HP and earn more