For the second time in a year, Samuel L. Jackson is playing a hitman in a movie. And for the second time in a year, …
For the second time in a year, Samuel L. Jackson is playing a hitman in a movie. And for the second time in a year, you’ll wish he hadn’t. His assassin character in “The Protégé,” Moody, is nowhere near as obnoxious and loud as Darius Kincaid from “ Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard.” Still, the actor should try another fictional profession on for size. Preferably in a movie that’s not a garbled mess. “The Protégé” starts out well enough. On a job, Moody discovers a little girl with blood splattered on her face hiding in a Vietnamese closet holding a gun. She just killed a room full of her captors. Impressed, Moody takes her under his wing, and 30 years later Anna (Maggie Q) is a murder machine.
