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With: Joey King, Dominic Cooper, Olga Kurylenko, Veronica Ngo, Ed Stoppard, Alex Reid
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Written by: Ben Lustig, Jake Thornton
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Directed by: Le-Van Kiet
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MPAA Rating: R for strong/bloody violence and some language
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Running Time: 94
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Date: 07/01/2022
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I Don't
By Jeffrey M. Anderson
The princess (Joey King) wakes up, wearing a willowy wedding dress, locked in a high tower in a castle. Two men enter, intending to do her harm, but she leaps into action, kills them both, and escapes. (She has been trained, in secret, by the faithful Linh, played by Veronica Ngo.) For the rest of the movie, she makes her way down through the castle, hoping to rescue her family, the king and queen and her younger sister, from the evil warmonger she was supposed to marry. There's probably way too much plot in The Princess, and it's at its best when it's moving, when King is showing her stuff, taking punches, getting hurt, and slowly ripping off the sleeves and bottom of the dress (and sliding on a pair of good boots). As the villain Dominic Cooper scowls and shouts, and Olga Kurylenko, as his lover and sidekick, occasionally does something nasty, and they distract from the main thrust. But it's a quick and ridiculously fun 94 minutes anyway.
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