Secret government facilities are positively haemorrhaging assassins this week. Barely Lethal (quite an ill-advised title) follows Megan (Hailee Steinfeld), an escapee from an elite team of teen girl killers who tries to realise her dream of a normal adolescence in an unremarkable provincial high school. Of course, all the elite training in the world can’t prepare Megan for the treacherous teen social scene. All the high-concept gloss in the world can’t obscure that this is a flat-footed retread of the very films Megan avidly watches in preparation for her latest “mission”.
Kyle Newman, 12A, 98min
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Barely Lethal
Megan Walsh (Hailee Steinfeld, Ender’s Game) is a teenage special ops agent who yearns for a normal adolescence. After faking her own death she assumes the role of an exchange student and quickly learns that surviving the treacherous waters of a typical American high school can be even more difficult than international espionage.
Jam-packed with action from the cafeteria to the battleground, and with hilarious performances from Samuel L. Jackson (Iron Man), Jessica Alba (Sin City: A Dame to Kill For) and Sophie Turner (TV’s Game of Thrones), Barely Lethal is the unmissalbe action comedy that shows just how hard surviving high school really is!