Kate Beckinsale is no stranger to kicking butt and taking names.
Now, she's back with her most electrifying performance to date in Amazon's "Jolt."
We have everything you need to know about the "Jolt" ending right here.
Justin seems like the perfect guy when he's first introduced.
He's charming, but he enjoys a good dirty joke.
It appears as though he was specially tailored to Lindy, and as it turns out, he was.
But right at the climax of her rampage against Gareth Fizel, he's killed by someone else
before she can achieve her revenge.
It seems anticlimactic, but that's when we get the big reveal that Justin is alive.
Not only is he still kicking around, but he masterminded the entire operation.
It turns out he works for the government, which wanted to kill Fizel but knew he was
too powerful to take out via the CIA.
That's where Lindy comes into play.
"Even the government isn't dumb enough to go after Fizel.
Are you really that stupid?"
"You know what?
I think I am exactly that stupid."
The government couldn't kill Fizel, but some woman with a revenge streak became the perfect
alibi.
Justin led Lindy right where he wanted her to go, and she played her part perfectly.
One could say the entire operation was all for the greater good, but all Lindy feels
is betrayal.
Justin may have the button to elicit electrical shocks to Lindy, but it doesn't do much good
when Lindy overpowers her treatment, and as expected, kills her former lover.
Naturally, Lindy's angry after she finds out Justin got all the information on her from
Dr. Ivan Munchin, who developed the treatment in the first place.
She visits him, and he's promptly arrested.
Before that, he mentions how they can move onto the next stage, and it's not until the
end of the film where we get a better idea of what that stage entails.
In a scene reminiscent of Nick Fury telling Tony Stark about the "Avengers Initiative,"
a woman played by Susan Sarandon enters Lindy's charred apartment.
Through clever editing, we realize that she's someone who has a past with Lindy and was
there when she was just a child undergoing experiments for her abnormal condition.
Now, it appears she wants to recruit Lindy as part of some covert mission where her abilities
can be put to "good" use.
She doesn't say who she works for and what kinds of missions Lindy would go on.
But chances are that said missions would likely include killing scores of people.
“Through our work, you'll learn to harness your rage and target the right people.
Humans are the most powerful, undetectable weapon."
Susan Sarandon's cameo is the final scene in the movie.
Given everything that transpires, you might assume that reveal is the end of everything.
But you may want to stick around for a bit longer once the credits start to roll.
The bonus scene doesn't have anything to do with the plot, but it's a nice payoff to what
we saw earlier in the film.
When Lindy's trying to get more information on her date's killer, she heads to a tech
shop to get more data from Justin's phone.
While she encounters a bunch of men on the main floor, they take her to the back containing
their savviest programmer, who looks like a hacker straight out of a '90s movie.
She's able to give Lindy the information she needs, and as payment, Lindy hands over the
keys to her car, which just so happens to be a McLaren Spider.
Naturally, the hacker is stoked on the new ride in the mid-credits scene, and hopefully,
she has the chance to drive it around for a bit before the police confiscate it for
its role in a high-speed pursuit earlier in the film.
"Jolt" follows in a current trend of female-led action movies all about the kind of agency
society allows women to have.
From the beginning of the film, we see how much Lindy suffers due to her condition.
Rather than help her, Dr. Munchin is only interested in testing the boundaries of how
intense her rage can get.
For this reason, he tells Justin about her, which results in all of the mayhem that transpires
in the film.
Rather than attempt to recruit her, Justin decides to manipulate her.
He terrorizes her emotions and makes her believe the one person on the planet who understood
her was taken away.
Men control every aspect of her being, but she regains a tiny sliver of it by the end
of the film.
Susan Sarandon's character appears to offer her another route, but it's unclear how much
control Lindy will have in her life moving forward.
Similar themes have come up with other action films within the last few years, like "Captain
Marvel" and "Black Widow."
All three stories have to deal with women forcing themselves to break free of the confines
placed on them from the patriarchy.
The trend likely started in response to the #MeToo movement, and hopefully, it brings
about plenty of other projects with exceptional female characters.
It certainly seems like the creative team behind "Jolt" have hopes for "Jolt 2."
Susan Sarandon's character coming at the end of the film hints at a whole world lying beneath
the surface of what Lindy knows, and another adventure could very well be in store for
her.
It all comes down to whether Amazon wants to go around for another ride.
"Jolt" just came out, so it's still a bit early to tell if a sequel announcement is
in store.
Star Kate Beckinsale is certainly no stranger to leading franchises with her turn as Selene
in the "Underworld" movies.
"Jolt" isn't based on any pre-existing intellectual property, so it could be her version of "John
Wick," launching her into a killer role she gets to play for years to come.
Regardless of the status of a possible "Jolt 2," fans can look forward to seeing Beckinsale
next in "El Tonto," written and directed by Charlie Day.
The comedy should make for a decidedly different pace than "Jolt."
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