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Agent 83 (Hailee Steinfield) a trained assasin, is on a mission and notices that she's missing the teenage world. When on another mission to catch one of the most notorious criminals of all and finds a way to get out of being an assassin she takes it and finds out that being a girl in high school isn't as fun or exciting as she first thought.
Megan Walsh has been training to be an international assassin for Hardman. However, while she is on a mission, she notices how other teenagers her age seem to be having fun and enjoying their lives. Desiring a normal life, she bails out of a mission and enrolls in a student exchange program, while in the process of being adopted by a foster family. She soon becomes a part of the high school and is subjected to the pressures and life of being in its environment.
Barely Lethal attempted an ambitious fusion of genres, but I didn't find it very satisfactory due to the incompatibility between its concept and its execution. However, to be fair, director Kyle Newman and screenwriter John D'Arco found quite a complicated labor trying to combine violence and humor in a setting restricted by the formulas of the juvenile comedy and the age of the target audience; under those limited circumstances, Barely Lethal should have been horrible, but it survives (in my humble opinion) due to the competent performances and a mediocre screenplay which at least recognizes its identity crisis and never forgets its commitment to the characters' humanity. Well, "humanity" might be a bit exaggerated. Barely Lethal doesn't pretend to offer dense questionings about the morality of training young girls as professional assassins; and it doesn't expect us to take the arbitrary changes of direction of the story seriously. D'Arco is conscious of the fact that the premise is absurd, but instead of hiding it, he took advantage to create politically incorrect moments which would never exist in a Disney film, but which we can appreciate without any guilt in this irreverent movie; for example: an honest conversation about "the first time"... even though it's not exactly the "first time" we were expecting. Those ambiguous compliments don't mean that Barely Lethal is a good film; it's basically a combination of Spy Kids and Mean Girls, but without the visual creativity from the former or the sharp social commentary from the latter. In fact, the whole movie counts with a single trick: the contrast of incongruent elements to generate humor, whether it's the sweet young girl trained to kill, or the school challenges interpreted as global threats. On the positive side, the actors make a decent work in their roles. Hailee Steinfeld faces the (bland) action scenes and her character's hesitant evolution as "normal" girl with credibility, while Samuel L. Jackson makes his usual stuff, screaming orders in his obligatory "sensitive tough guy" role... but keeping the vocabulary consistent with the PG-13 rating. Even Jessica Alba makes a good work as the villain (to be fair, I have noticed quite an improvement in the most recent performances I have seen from her, specially when she plays roles which don't require long dialogs or complex emotions; I'm sorry if that sounds as an insult, but I say it as a compliment). However, my favorite performance of Barely Lethal comes from Dove Cameron, who is a graduate of the Disney Channel, but doesn't drag the vices from such "school"; on the opposite, her performance feels likable and very natural. So, Barely Lethal is a film which doesn't know what it wants, and stumbles many times in its search of sense and acceptation. I don't know whether it might be appropriate for young children, due to the casual handling of guns and violence; and the teenage audience might find it too bland and inoffensive. In my personal case, it didn't bore, and I appreciated its occasional ingenuity to combine contradictory elements, so I think I can give it a slight recommendation with wide reservations; the common sense from the reader will dictate whether it's worthy to take the risk or not. After all, I think there are occasions in which I appreciate the subversive attitude of a movie more than its narrative talent. That might be the reason why Showgirls is one of my favorite films.
Prescott is a top secret government agency that turns orphaned kids into super assassins. One of the kids known as Agent 83 (Hailee Steinfeld) craves to have a normal life and do everything that normal kids do. After a botched mission to take out prolific arms dealer Victoria Knox (Jessica Alba), Agent 83 sees an opportunity to break free from Prescott and enrols in a student exchange programme and moves in with the unsuspecting Larson family. Agent 83 or Megan Walsh as she becomes known as begins to lead a new life as a 'normal' kid, but finds herself ostracised due to her 'weird' ways. Walsh struggles to adjust to her new life are worsened by the fact that the head of Prescott's known as Hardman (Samuel L Jackson) is looking for her with the intention of getting her to leave her normal life and return to Prescott's.
The opening 5-10 minutes of this film held a lot of promise and the idea of a kid being a super assassin wanting to lead a normal life certainly looks good on paper, but the weaknesses in the film are in evidence from a very early stage....
Before I start I would like to say that I have ticked the 'spoiler' box to cover myself, but in all honesty anyone who has seen a handful of teen films will be able to predict pretty much every scene in this film. Weird girl joins a school, becomes an outcast because of her weird ways, falls for the most popular guy in school despite the fact that a less popular guy who she has more in common with worships the ground that she walks on. Weird girl starts to become popular realising that the popular guy isn't all that and ends up falling for the less popular guy who is actually more interesting and who genuinely likes her. Does all this sound familiar? Yes that's because it is mostly a re-tread of Clueless. In fact the filmmakers actually show clips from the film Clueless and even recreate the Suck & Blow game that we saw in Clueless. This can either be looked upon as Homage or a Rip-Off but given the fact that it seems so obvious in what it's doing here I can only assume that these scenes were perhaps intended as a homage.
This lack of originality brings about further problems such as in other areas where the filmmakers directly quote from other teenage films such as Mean Girls and The Breakfast Club. It actually references these films direct and worse still uses quotes or scenes from these films in order to convey character emotions. It's almost like the writers couldn't come up with their own ideas here and just decided to steal ideas from other films. The Clueless example I gave was something I could pass off as Homage, but The Breakfast Club and Mean Girls examples are clearly just ripping off those films.
Barely Lethal also tries to be a hybrid of a spy adventure/action film and a coming of age teen dramedy and whilst it is perhaps possible to meld these two concepts together this is not really something that the writers have been entirely successful at here; the 'spy' or Prescott aspect of the story is barely given any focus and seems to clumsily drift in and out of the story whenever it seems to be convenient. They capture Victoria Knox, but then she escapes - quite how she escapes is never explained and doesn't seem important to the writers??? Then she rocks up at the Larson family home to take out Agent 83, has a scuffle with Agent 83 and gets killed when Hardman and his men arrive to save the day. It's a disappointing finale made worse by the fact that Jessica Alba isn't very convincing and seems miscast as a villain here. Although part of the film is about Hardman trying to track down Agent 83, it isn't played out in a way that is particularly exciting and Hardman seems to find Agent 83 far too easily. At one point Agent 83 says to Hardman 'How did you find me'? and Hardman says ' You Tube' OK unless the video contained specific details of the school such as its name and address I'm unsure how you could trace someone from a You Tube video???
The thing that makes this film more tolerable than it should be are down to some of the performances; The likes of Hailee Steinfeld, Dove Cameron and Samuel L Jackson all help to make this a better film than it should be (particular praise going to Steinfeld who I thought was excellent). It's themes about struggling to gain acceptance for being different will always be relevant and again do give the film some worth.
However, when the chips are down, I couldn't help but feel that I'd seen a lot of this before in Clueless and for the record Clueless was also a much better film.
Hardly groundbreaking but this high-school actioner ghosts by on its charm and sense of fun.
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