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Former war hero Nikki's peaceful life is shattered when her daughter is kidnapped. Thrust into the criminal underworld while hunted by cops and military, she must fight to rescue her child.

Cast

  • Milla Jovovich
  • D.B. Sweeney
  • Matthew Modine
  • Don Harvey
  • Arica Himmel
  • Michael Stahl-David
  • Isabel Myers
  • Brooklyn Sudano
  • Gabriel Sloyer
  • Texas Battle
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"Protector" delivers Milla Jovovich as a "caffeinated thundercloud" of vengeance in what critics describe as her "senior citizen Liam Neeson era," complete with jaw-dropping dialogue mishaps and a third-act twist that "defies logic, reason, and possibly the Geneva Convention of Good Taste." While audiences appreciate Jovovich's committed performance and the B-movie charm of watching her kill human traffickers for 90 minutes, the film stumbles with painfully bad filmmaking, incomprehensible editing, and production values that wouldn't "pass muster in a student film."
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Metacritic

42
Mar 9, 2026

It’s both more and less than “Taken: Mom Edition,” another boneheaded poking of conservative’s self-inflicted wounds around human trafficking with a title just as deluded as its content.

Metacritic review by Jacob Oller
Jacob Oller
The A.V. Club
40
Mar 5, 2026

While it has a mix of fresh and familiar concepts, Protector ultimately still feels too routine to stand out from the crowd.

Grant Hermanns
Screen Rant
30
Mar 5, 2026

Either the twist needed to come earlier, or the filmmakers needed to do a better job of making sure it provided enough of a jolt to make the previous, largely generic 85 minutes worth the effort. As it stands, Protector's twist ending feels adrift in a movie that's not compelling enough to support it.

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