Salma Hayek Kills Everybody in Red-Band Everly Trailer - Update

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Salma Hayek Kills Everybody in Red-Band Everly Trailer - Update

Fantastic Fest buzzmaker is a female-fronted Raid in reverse

Update: A superior-quality "red band" version of the original trailer has now appeared online [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2-TRIEnfAQ].

Original Story: 2011's The Raid [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/escape-to-the-movies/5556-The-Raid] featured a hero trying to get out of an apartment building filled with enemies out to kill him. 2014's Everly inverts that premise on multiple levels, with Salma Hayek as a heroine fighting to defend one apartment from wave after wave of trained killers trying to get in.

Hayek plays a woman who has gotten in bad with The Yakuza, and finds herself holed-up and alone when an army of hitmen, mercenaries and other killers attack her apartment looking to bring her down. Complicating matters is her determination to make sure that, whatever happens to her, she gets a stash of needed money to her mother.

The film, from director Joe Lynch (a cult fave since the spectacularly-violent Wrong Turn 2) was a big hit at this year's Badass Digest, [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/tag/view/fantastic%20fest] called it "Pretty much as awesome as it sounds."

Everly hits VOD on January 23rd, ahead of a theatrical release in February.


Source: YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2-TRIEnfAQ]

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[SilverHunter]

So... The only actual connection to "The Raid" is its set in an apartment and people die in it?


Please don't bring up The Raid in trying to explain a movie. Because the premise isn't the only thing this movie inverted. It also inverted any care I had in it as well since that trailer was about as dull as could be. For a second I was actually expecting a female version of an awesome movie, and instead it's just... Well, movie looks like crap is about all I can say. Who knows though, maybe we'll get a "The Raid" spinoff for Hammer Girl from the second film. She seems much more interesting than this entire film.

 

[StriderShinryu]

Eh, that was pretty disappointing. I'd love to see an action movie starring a lady who was totally kicking all kinds of ass but this just doesn't look like it.. at all, really.

 

[The Real Sandman]

Looks like a run of the mill siege/survival action film. Just because the protagonist is the lady who played Frida Kahlo, instead of Liam Neeson or a similarly gravely voiced macho man, doesn't make it seem any less generic.

 

[josemlopes]

Wow, those are some terrible hitmans, Salma Hayek couldnt handle a submachine gun and yet all those trained enemies cant manage to get her? Seems kind of weird, its like the trailer kept showing that she wasnt a trained soldier against a bunch of actually trained soldiers (one of them comes with a fucking sai, if someone brings that to a fight as the weapon of choice then you know you are fucked) yet, the moment they actually have to hit her they just fail.

It looked like something out of a Mr. Bean episode where he is so clumsy and yet get the job done.

 

[Metalrocks]

cheesy enough. so i think i will get some good laughs out of it.

 

[FPLOON]

"You know guns?"
"Dad wanted a boy."
*chuckles*

Okay, movie... You got me... I may check you out after all... <color=white>Also, what was with the trailer's subtitles, again?

 

[Pyrian]

Who knows though, maybe we'll get a "The Raid" spinoff for Hammer Girl from the second film. She seems much more interesting than this entire film.

Or the one she was actually in, for that matter.

 

[vagabondwillsmile]

Other than the sigle central location - "Dredd" did that too - this feels a lot more like "Shoot 'em up" with Clive Owen than "The Raid".

That said, "Shoot 'em up" wasn't bad. It was campy and silly, but hit the right marks. This could hit the same marks and also be cool - or it could miss them all and be terrible. It's hard to predict, from the footage shown, how this one's going to go.

 

[BloodRed Pixel]

Gunploitation Movie?

Explodetation Movie?

the 80s are back!

 

[Cowabungaa]

Eh, that was pretty disappointing. I'd love to see an action movie starring a lady who was totally kicking all kinds of ass but this just doesn't look like it.. at all, really.

I actually really like the haphazard look of it. Oh it looks stupid, very stupid, but also hilarious. Yeah I definitely want to see this.

 

[UberThetan]

The amount of butthurt here over the fact that it was described as "inverse The Raid" is fucking dumb. Not only that, but it's not even that wrong.

Wow, those are some terrible hitmans, Salma Hayek couldnt handle a submachine gun and yet all those trained enemies cant manage to get her?

I'm pretty sure that seeing her "manage" is going to be half the fun in this movie. I think we've seen more implausible stuff on the big screen so seeing her actually struggle with the submachine gun would be something that counts in it's favour, wouldn't it?

 

[Paul10238]

This still looks poor. Red band didn't help much. So we're supposed to just go along with a character who gets shot in the first 10 seconds of the trailer and inexplicably manages to take on loads of enemies anyway. Forget it. The moment you start going into looney tunes territory I check out completely. It just seems that their grasp exceeds their reach on this one.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

God knows I'll watch Salma in anything, especially if she's going to be in a nightie for half the movie.