Look, we all enjoyed Killing Eve at the time, for a season or two at least. When it debuted, there was that rare feeling of something thrillingly new being coined that would have a lasting influence. But it was eight years ago now. It’s too late to release a clone.
And yet here, soon after Ride or Die (Killing Eve, but she’s brought a friend) and The Assassin (Killing Eve, but she’s your mum) is Kill Jackie, a show with one of Killing Eve’s directors, very nearly the same title, and yet another fabulous woman on a trans-continental homicide spree. This horse has been thoroughly flogged, and Kill Jackie confirms that it is quite, quite dead.
The latest glamorous murder machine is Jackie Price (Catherine Zeta-Jones), a dealer in fine art who sells collections for tens of millions of pounds. She is in complete control of her exquisite life and has enough money to do what she wants and say what she wants – but something she’s done or said has angered someone powerful, as evidenced by the squad of assassins who turn up at her Kensington flat.
They don’t kill her – she kills them, because it turns out that before she was an elite art dealer she was an even more elite cocaine dealer, who acquired a deadly set of skills in order to survive. Having failed with their first attempt, whoever wishes Jackie ill doubles down by hiring a second team to finish the job, and this time it’s – dun dun duunnnn! – legendary murder squad the Seven Demons.
View Green Video on the source websiteJackie, faced with being the target of the world’s most dangerous contract-killing gang, must go on the run, trying to eliminate the Demons before they eliminate her. With her she takes faithful assistant Charlie (Hattie Hook), who already had a fair idea about her boss’s dark side and doesn’t mind, and her panicky lawyer Sam (Daniel Ings), who didn’t have a clue and is deeply freaked out.
If that premise sounds awkward and contrived, it is, and Kill Jackie’s lack of a narrative rudder means it never knows exactly what it’s meant to be doing. It has a rough plan: its checklist includes chases, shootouts, semi-ironic needle drops of 60s/70s deep cuts, gadgets – given to Jackie by Poltergeist, a super-fancy global concierge service that can provide her with anything, anywhere – and ingenious subterfuges perpetrated in gorgeous European locations. But these bits of other, better shows are clumsy in isolation and a purposeless mess when tossed together.
Everything clangs. Your nose wrinkles and your eyes narrow as you watch. Almost every scene has a minor irritation stemming from an idea that needed more work, from Jackie subtly telling us how well she knows someone by asking them, “Remember last Christmas, when you came over to my place?” – it was less than a year ago Jackie, so yes, they do remember it; to the scene where she, while seated on a sofa, manages to shoot two armed and hostile drug dealers not with a concealed handgun, but a pump-action shotgun that she’s suddenly holding in both hands.
The scene and plot mechanics are bad and the character management is worse, with supporting players regularly killed off before they’ve become interesting, then replaced with someone even less engaging. The feted Seven Demons, meanwhile, are introduced with a Tarantino-esque flourish and have names like The Cuban and The Doc, but are cringeworthy stabs at comic-book psychopath cool: if 2026 is a bit late for a Killing Eve knock-off generally, it’s definitely far too late to be giving a villain an eye patch.
It is a script that badly needs help from a charismatic lead performance, but Zeta-Jones refuses point-blank. The tone she was going for was most likely cynical, world-weary insouciance, but what we get is more like catatonic boredom: as she flatly mumbles another line that barely makes sense, there’s no need for anyone to kill Jackie. She was never alive.
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