John Wick’s action meets Foxy Brown’s retro style in the first trailer for Proud Mary

With the John Wick-esque, high-precision gun ballet now pretty much established as Hollywood’s go-to action style for characters without superpowers, Empire’s Taraji P. Henson is taking the style back to the ‘70s. In the first trailer for Proud Mary, Henson plays the title character, a hit woman working for a mob family in Boston. She’s good at what she does, but it’s not long before a job goes bad and things go crazy.

Mary, like Wick himself, is a tough-as-nails killer who seemingly needs to aim for only half a millisecond before murdering her marks with extreme prejudice. Style-wise, the movie looks like it’s borrowing from blaxploitation classics like Foxy Brown and Coffy, something that’s only accentuated by Tina Turner’s “Proud...

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