![]() ![]() ![]() The Princess kicks off with the titular princess (Joey King) waking up handcuffed at the top of a tall tower, where she immediately takes out her guards. From action director Le-Van Kiet, The Princess plays into well-worn genre subversions, but actually sees those subversions through for a satisfying effect. But it’s actually a 20th Century Studios title, an R-rated killer-combat film that lets the unnamed princess at its center do serious, bloody damage. ![]() Its fairy-tale tropes could make it look like a Disney film from a distance - and the fact that Disney acquired it, and is releasing it on Disney Plus outside the U.S., doesn’t dispel that impression. The live-action martial arts movie The Princess could easily just be another story about one more headstrong princess who doesn’t want to wait around to be rescued. Fairy-tale conventions dictate that a princess in distress will likely get rescued by a dashing man - except in more modern cases, where she might instead smack the man she once wanted to marry, get rescued by an ogre, start a fashion empire, or any of the many contemporary iterations that subvert the damsel-in-distress trope. ![]()
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