“I’ll find you.”

From Charlie’s Angels.

Part of the international private spy group the Townsend Agency, also known as Charlie’s Angels, is the no-nonsense, serious Jane (Ella Balinska) and the sloppy, easily-distracted Sabina (Kristen Stewart).  These two women use their elite skills and training to protect the world by staying just outside the spotlight; working alongside lieutenants codenamed “Bosley,” including the newly retiring European Supervisor (Patrick Stewart), Jane and Sabina meet while working to bring down a corrupt businessman (Chris Pang).  Elena (Naomi Scott) is a coder/programmer for a tech company tasked with creating a self-sufficent clean energy source, but a glitch makes the device dangerous for humans.  While Elena has asked her supervisor (Nat Faxon) to push back the project’s release so she and her team (including Noah Centineo) can fix the glitch, with management constantly trying to please the company’s founder, Alexander Brock (Sam Claflin), they continue with production.  Left with no other option, Elana reaches out to the Townsend Agency with the truth; Sabina and Jane are tasked with watching over their Bosley (Djimon Hounsou) as he meets with Elena, but the three women’s lives quickly become entwined when an assassin (Jonathan Tucker) tries to kill Elana.  Sabina, Jane, and Elana meet up with another Bosley (Elizabeth Banks) as they head off on a crazy adventure all over the world.  The Angels take Elena to the nearest safe house and devise a plan to keep the potential-weapon devices Elena’s company before her supervisor can sell or use it for evil.  As things spiral out of control, Jane, Sabina, and Elena race to find the devices and stop those involved, all while facing unknown forces inside the Townsend Agency that wish to stop them.

This franchise reboot builds off the television show and the two early-2000s films, but manages to create a film that can easily stand on its own; where the previous painfully-hokey films focused only on the stars’ sex appeal, this movie builds a story that is solid, fun, and surprising.  Balinska, Scott, and Stewart each create unique characters, but also work well together on screen in a very empowering, encouraging, and endearing way.  Filled with action and humor, Charlie’s Angels is the restart the franchise needed to make itself relevant for a new generation.

| Rated: PG-13 | Running Time: 118 minutes |Genre: action/comedy |

||Family Viewing||Cursing: 3* of 10|Nudity: 0.5 of 10|Sexuality: 0 of 10|Gore: 2 of 10

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