Trailer For The Action Thriller INFILTRATE Is a Gender-Swapped TAKEN With Serious Martial Arts Credentials
If you've seen Taken, you already know the blueprint. Stranger calls. Family gets taken. Carnage follows. Infiltrate takes that exact formula, flips the gender, and sends a government agent named Lily Chen into the criminal underworld to tear it apart from the inside out.
Quiver Distribution just released the trailer and it does what action trailers are supposed to do and it’s filled with action, moral compromise, and a ticking clock.
Lily, played by Canadian stuntwoman and martial artist Orphée Ladouceur-Nguyen, gets a call from a mysterious voice that makes her an offer she can't refuse.
Her husband has been kidnapped. The price of his return? She has to assassinate a string of high-level criminals while unraveling a web of corruption that goes deeper than anyone expected.
The cast rounds out with Tim Rozon, Mitra Suri, Alain Moussi, and Lisa Berry. Ladouceur-Nguyen herself is worth paying attention to here. Casting an actual stuntwoman in the lead of a stunt-heavy film is a solid move. The action sequences in the trailer carry a physicality that's harder to fake when you're working with someone who has spent years building that skill set.
The film comes from writer-director James Mark, a stuntman-turned-filmmaker who has been building out a filmography in this exact lane. Kill Order, On the Ropes, Enhanced, Control, Fight Another Day, and now this.
He isn't reinventing anything here, and he probably knows that, but this is a filmmaker who understands action choreography from the ground up and keeps making scrappy, committed genre films without a lot of fuss.
Is this movie going to change your life? Almost certainly not. But if you're the kind of person who watches a trailer and thinks, "yeah, I'll watch a woman methodically dismantle an organized crime syndicate on a Friday night," this one seems to know exactly what it's trying to be, and it's trying to be that with some real conviction.
The movie is currently on VOD,