"Catch the Fair One" is a gritty revenge thriller which pulls no punches. Kali Reis plays Kaylee, an Indigenous-black female, former lightweight boxing champ, who plans on going undercover into a human sex trafficking ring to find her missing sister. This movie is dark. It even has a cameo performance from Lisa Emery (best know for her role as Darlene Snell in Ozark). There have been lots of similar films of revenge, "Death Wish, "The Brave One," "The Equalizer," etc. But "Catch the Fair One" reminded me most of "Blue Ruin" for its small small independent-cinematic quality and also for its dirty and realistic perspective - it bobs and weaves in directions I didn't expect. Darren Aronofsky ("Requiem for a Dream") is one of the producers to give you a sense of the darkness I'm talking about. If you can take it, then hop in the ring with "Catch the Fair One," one of the best little crime dramas that came out last year. Catch it on streaming services or at your local rep cinema.
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