Protector
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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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This Milla Jovovich action thriller divides audiences as a gloriously unhinged B-movie experience that's either hilariously entertaining or painfully derivative. While reviewers consistently praise Jovovich's magnetic performance and the film's campy action sequences (including a memorable skateboard scene), they're equally unanimous about its terrible dialogue, plot holes, and a jaw-dropping twist ending that 'defies logic and possibly the Geneva Convention of Good Taste.'
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- Apr 14, 2026
Milla Jovovich is a great actress, and she deserved more than being in a generic action movie like this one. Ranking 2026
WexlleyMar 6, 2026"Physically, she was recoveried. But mentally?" Movie so bad it made Matthew Modine forget how to speak English Every time they said "whorehouse" it took me out Does she think that adding diet coke to coffee gives it more caffeine or something?? Like she clearly had a…
shmosby🧃Mar 26, 2026It's unfortunate that I accurately predicted the quality of this film, because it was a Milla Jovovich action vehicle, given her track record—this film reinforces that. Centering on a mother's war path through a criminal underworld to rescue her daughter, the film can't…
Daisy Merollin - Mar 5, 2026
If she rode the skateboard throughout the entire movie we could have struck some real gold
SuperPiecesMar 4, 2026Milla Jovovich entering her senior citizen Liam Neeson era, I’ll take 1 of these a year, thanks! Hopefully they get more money next time and it’s not as DTV-esque but whatever man, the action scenes pop and the rest does not
Brett ArnoldMar 5, 2026The filmmaking is painfully bad in places, the plot is ridiculous while simultaneously self-serious, the acting over the top and cheesy, the score sounds like it was lifted from a cable movie from the ‘90s, the editing is incomprehensible, and the make-up used for the…
Ryan Izay - Mar 18, 2026
Unbearable when the camera isn't on Milla and politically...uhh yeah... but otherwise as a hellbent Mother Taken this rocked so hard, kind of obsessed with this movie tbh. She drops hundreds of dollars on a not-for-sale skateboard to do like 1 cool trick and then just…
KYKMar 8, 2026This flick was directed by Adrian Grunberg, doesn’t quite have the slick, ice-cold massive efficiency of one of those classic Liam Neeson vengeance vehicles...remember "Taken"...but it does have Milla Jovovich, who storms into the movie like a caffeinated thundercloud and…
WingnutMar 9, 2026An otherworldly oddity, something akin to the b-movie, DTV trash of the 80’s and 90’s (think Hard Rock Zombies, for example) — easily one of the funniest (unintentionally so) films of the year
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Metacritic
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.
Jacob Oller
The A.V. Club
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
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.
Robert Brian Taylor
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